Acknowledgments xi
Prologue 3(6)
PART 1 The March Up
Chapter One People who will not give in
9(7)
Chapter Two There were never such men in an army before
16(16)
Chapter Three This Campaign is going to end this show
32(14)
Chapter Four A perfectly surplus body of men
46(18)
Chapter Five Victory will inevitably attend our arms
64(16)
Chapter six A goggle-eyed old snapping turtle
80(19)
Chapter Seven A universal panic prevails
99(16)
Chapter Eight You will have to fight like the devil to hold your own
115(24)
PART 2 The First Day
Chapter Nine The devil's to pay
139(16)
Chapter Ten You stand alone, between the Rebel Army and your homes!
155(22)
Chapter Eleven The dutch run and leave us to fight
177(21)
Chapter Twelve Go in, South Carolina!
198(14)
Chapter Thirteen If the enemy is there to-morrow, we must attack him
212(23)
PART 3 The Second Day
Chapter Fourteen One of the bigger bubbles of the scum
235(22)
Chapter Fifteen You are to hold this ground at all costs
257(19)
Chapter Sixteen I have never been in a hotter place
276(28)
Chapter Seventeen The supreme moment of the war had come
304(18)
Chapter Eighteen Remember Harper's Ferry!
322(13)
Chapter Nineteen We are the Louisiana Tigers!
335(18)
Chapter Twenty Let us have no more retreats
353(20)
PART 4 The Third Day
Chapter Twenty-One The general plan of attack was unchanged
373(15)
Chapter Twenty-Two Are you going to do your duty today?
388(17)
Chapter Twenty-Three The shadow of a cloud across a sunny field
405(22)
Chapter Twenty-Four As clear a defeat as our army ever met with
427(14)
Chapter Twenty-Five There is bad faith somewhere
441(25)
Chapter Twenty-Six To Sweep & plunder the battle grounds
466(9)
Epilogue 475(8)
Notes 483(118)
Index 601