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contents Introduction: A Drop That Dyes the Seas 1 1. A Stone’s Throw: Charlotte Cushman 7 2. The Flame of Place: Abraham Lincoln 59 3. The Glass Case: Interior Life in Washington, D.C. 94 4. Acoustic Shadows: The Battle of Bristoe Station 137 5. Center of Echoes: Castle Murray, Fauquier County, Virginia 161 6. Ghosts: The Death of Colonel Thomas Ru‹n, October 17, 1863 180 7. Sound and Fury: Nature in Virginia 200 acknowledgments 227 notes 229 selected bibliography 267 list of illustrations 285 index 289 This page intentionally left blank ...

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