Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Ball Opens (December 1859 to mid-April 1861)
1. John Brown’s Body (December 1859)
2. Torchlight Season (April-November 1860)
3. The Revolution is Initiated (April 1861)
4. Glory to God! (April 12-14, 1861)
Chapter 2. I Say, Let it be Done (The years of growing bitterness)
1. FLASHBACK: Parallel Lives
2. FLASHBACK: Old Brown’s War (Early October through early December 1859)
3. FLASHBACK: A Railroad Under the Ground
4. FLASHBACK: A Bargain with the Devil
5. A Grand Adventure (April 1861)
Chapter 3. War Changes Everything (Mid-April to early summer 1861)
1. Commotion in Columbus (April and May 1861)
2. The First Regiments Depart (April and May 1861)
3. A Second Great Army
4. In Washington at Last (May to July 1861)
5. A Making of Generals (May to July 1861)
6. Gazette
Chapter 4. An Improvised War (Summer and Fall 1861)
1. Rescuing Western Virginia (June and July 1861)
2. A Meeting in Vienna. (June 17)
3. The First of the Might-Have-Beens (July 1861)
4. The Man Who Could Talk to Horses
5. “Granny” Lee’s Bad Start. (July to October 1861).
6. Gazette. (The first year of war).
Chapter 5. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Fall 1861 and Winter 1861-62)
1. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Summer 1859—-November 1861)
2. The Hard Drivers (1858—1861)
3. In the Hills and Valleys (Winter 1861-62)
4. Going to Soldier (November 1861—March 1862)
5. The Bloodhound from Ohio (1861-65)
6. The Quiet Man (August—November 1861)
7. “Unconditional Surrender” Grant (January—February 1862)
8. Cump Loses His Grip, Then Regains It (August 1861—April 1862)
Chapter 6. The Bloody Work of War (Spring 1862)
1. The Devil’s Own Day (April 6, 1862)
2. Reversals of Fortune (April 7, 1862
3. The Great Locomotive Chase (April 12, 1862)
4. On to Corinth. (May to June 1862)
5. Theaters of War
6. Gazette
Chapter 7. I am in Command Again! (Spring and Summer 1862)
1. The Enigma from Ohio
2. Stonewall Comes to the Shenandoah Valley (March to June 1862)
4. A Campaign Comes to Nothing (March to July 1862)
5. The Long, Hot Summer (July and August 1862).
6. Reprise (August 1862)
7. A Cyclone Called Mother
8. Gazette
Chapter 8. This War is an Awful Thing (Autumn 1862)
1. “Give the Sons of Bitches Hell!” (September 14, 1862)
2. The Bloodiest Day (September 17, 1862)
3. The Reluctant Commander (November 1862 to January 1863)
4. Cavaliers and Squirrel Hunters (July to September 11, 1862)
5. The Siege of Corinth (October 3-4, 1862)
6. “What a Battle Is” (October 8, 1862)
7 “This War is an Awful Thing” (November 1862)
8 Gazette
Chapter 9. Remember Me, My Dear Wife (January to July 1863)
1. Give Them a Whoop and a Yell! (December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863)
2. My Plans are Perfect (May 1863)
3. This Will All Come Out Right (February to July 1863)
4. Vallandigham and the Copperheads (March to May 1863)
5. John Mercer Langston and a “Baptism of Blood” (April to June 1863)
7. The Death of Jacob Bruner (June 1863)
Chapter 10. Rivers of Death (July—November 1863)
1. Gettysburg ( July 1863)
2. What Followed the Battle (July to November 1863)
3. The River of Death (September 1863)
4. The Great Ohio Raid (July 1863)
5. Liberty Warner
6. Ohio Makes a Decision (May to October 1863).
7. Ohio’s Black Soldiers (June to November 1863)
8. Grant to the Rescue (October 1863)
9. My Dear, dear Jamie (October to December 1863)
Chapter 11. Grant Takes Charge (Late 1863 to August 1864)
1. The Battles of Chattanooga (November 1863)
2. Change of Command (March 1864)
3. The Widow Calhoun
4. Uncle Billy Fancies Atlanta (January to September 1864)
5. Grant Meets Lee (March to June 1864)
6. Gazette (Late summer 1864)
Chapter 12. War is Cruelty (September to December 1864)
1. Eating Out the Valley (May to October 1864)
2. Grant and the Siege of Petersburg (September to November 1864)
3. Lincoln’s Re-election (June to November 1864)
4. Desperation (September to December 1864)
5. Vengeance is Mine (September to December 1864)
6. Gazette
Chapter 13. The Warrior’s Song (The War Years)
1. Making Lincoln Laugh
2. Andersonville
3. The Cleveland Ladies (April 1861 to February 1864)
4. The Colonel Who Loved Too Much: (August 1863 to May 1864)
5. Ohio’s Unwilling Guests (August 1864)
6. Strong Women
7. Gazette
Chapter 14. Endings (January to June 1865)
1. Grant Takes Richmond (January to April 1865)
2. Sherman’s “Quixotic Venture” (January to April 1865)
3. Capitulations and Humiliations (April 1865)
4. Death of a President (April 14-30, 1865)
5. The Sultana Disaster (April 27, 1865).
6. “The Grandest Review” (May 23-24, 1865)
7. Gazette
Chapter 15. “Where is You? Where is You?” (From 1865 until now)
1. Coming Home (May to October 1865)
2. Reasons Why
3. “The Electric Cord”
4. The Fruits of War
5. Remembrance
Chapter 16. Somebody’s Darlin’
1. Misunderstanding the War
2. Seeing the War from Another Angle
3. Turning Points
4. How Ohioans Won the Civil War
5. The Natural Man
6. Somebody’s Darlin’
Chapter 17. The Rest of Their Stories