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Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One The Volunteer—National War Climate, Recruitment, and War Preparations, August–September 1862 Chapter Two Into the Fray—Antietam, Sharpsburg Area, September–October 1862 Chapter Three On the March—Maryland, Harper’s Ferry, and Virginia, November–December 1862 Chapter Four “Carnage and Destruction”—Fredericksburg, December 1862 Chapter Five Mud, Morale, and Monotony, January–April 1863 Chapter Six “This Coveted Ground”—Chancellorsville, April–June 1863 Chapter Seven Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee, June–July 1863 Chapter E ight “Pack Up and March,” August–October 1863 ix xiii 1 17 36 50 65 79 95 119 viii Contents Chapter Nine “Shooing Geese across a Creek” and Decision at Mine Run, October–December 1863 Chapter Ten Winter Encampment, January–April 1864 Chapter Eleven The Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and North Anna River— The Overland Campaign and Hospital Recovery, April–uly 1864 Chapter T welve “Hold on with a Bull Dog Grip”—Petersburg, July–September 1864 Chapter Thirteen “Strong Men Strengthened and the Weak Made Strong”— Petersburg and the Weldon Railroad Raid, October–December 1864 Chapter F ourteen “He Knows Not What a Day or Hour May Bring Forth”— Dabney’s Mills and Second Hatcher’s Run, January–March 1865 Chapter F ifteen “The Beautiful Captain”—Five Forks, March–April 1865 Chapter Sixteen “What Will Become of All These Men?” The Postwar Years, 1865-1898 Notes Bibliography Index 145 162 179 203 224 239 254 267 279 283 287 ...