Introduction / J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher --
The "Gettysburg" Lincoln : the back story of a full-frontal photograph / Harold Holzer --
Robert E. Lee and Traveller in Petersburg / Ethan S. Rafuse --
"It is just what it is and nothing else": Grant after Cold Harbor / Joan Waugh --
Jeb Stuart in full finery / Gary W. Gallagher --
Three roads to Antietam: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Gardner / J. Matthew Gallman --
The weird one: Stonewall Jackson's Chancellorsville portrait / Kathryn Shively Meier --
The peculiar genius of William Tecumseh Sherman / Joseph T. Glatthaar --
Looking at war : Union soldiers in the Peninsula Campaign / Aaron Sheehan-Dean --
Cary Robinson's last Christmas / Emory M. Thomas --
Three confederates at Gettysburg / Brooks D. Simpson --
Champ Ferguson / Daniel E. Sutherland --
Who are they? / Carol Reardon --
A family in camp / Caroline E. Janney --
What's in a face : Annie Etheridge Hooks and civil work / Jane E. Schultz --
Refugee camp at Helena, Arkansas, 1863 / Thavolia Glymph --
Finding a new war in an old image / Susan Eva O'Donovan --
My dead Confederate / James Marten --
Andrew J. Russell and the stone wall at Fredericksburg / Earl J. Hess --
"A harvest of death" : negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, positive by Alexander Gardner / Stephen Cushman --
Colonel William P. Rogers and his comrades : postmortem at Corinth, Mississippi, October 1862 / T. Michael Parrish --
"Eye of history" : looking at Civil War prisoners of war / Judith A. Giesberg --
A dead horse / James I. Robertson Jr. --
City Point, Virginia : the nerve center of the Union war effort / Elizabeth R. Varon --
The book or the gun? / Stephen Berry --
From home front to ruins : the Fredericksburg destruction / William A. Blair --
George N. Barnard, "Charleston, S.C. View of ruined buildings through porch of the Circular Church (150 Meeting Street)," 1865 / Megan Kate Nelson --
The Grand Review / Steven E. Woodworth.
