Introduction: How I Learned the Civil War
1.Monitor and Merrimack, My Ironclad Gods
2.The Confederates Who Should've Been Hanged
3.The Diary of Adam Gurowski
4.Yes, They Were Traitors: John Logan's Great Conspiracy
5.McClellan: "Top of His Class at The Point"
6.Poe at West Point
7.A Traitor Writes Home: McClellan's Harrison's Landing Letter
8.Worst Battle Speech Ever
9.Arm The Slaves? The Confederacy Would Rather Die
10.Turchin's Trial: The Shift To Hard War
11.Why Sherman Was Right to Burn Atlanta
12.Keep the Home Fires Burning: Civil War Arson
13.Twain at War
14.Chernow's Grant: The Big Pithed Plinth
15.The Home Front
16.Checking in on the Lost Cause, 156 Years Later
17.Speaking of Monuments That Need Sledgehammers...