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Editor's Introduction
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Prologue: From the Halls of Montezuma
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The United States at Midcentury
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Mexico Will Poison Us
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An Empire for Slavery
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Slavery, Rum, and Romanism
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The Crime Against Kansas
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Mudsills and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln
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The Revolution of 1860
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The Counterrevolution of 1861
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Facing Both Ways: The Upper South's Dilemma
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Amateurs Go to War
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Farewell to the Ninety Days' War
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Blockade and Beachhead: The Salt-Water War, 1861-1862
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The River War in 1862
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The Sinews of War
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Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues
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We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued
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Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
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John Bull's Virginia Reel
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Three Rivers in Winter, 1862-1863
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Fire in the Rear
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Long Remember: The Summer of '63
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Johnny Reb's Chattanooga Blues
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When This Cruel War Is Over
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If It Takes All Summer
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After Four Years of Failure
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We Are Going To Be Wiped Off the Earth
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South Carolina Must Be Destroyed
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We Are All Americans
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Epilogue: To the Shoals of Victory
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Abbreviated Titles
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Bibliographic Note
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Index
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