Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
Contents
Impasse at mid-century -- Firebell in the night -- The sleeping tiger -- Bibles on the plains -- Reshaping party structures -- The sound of distant thunder -- A house dividing -- Torchlights and wigwams -- Crisis of the union -- The guns of Sumter -- High tide of the Confederacy -- The road to Appomattox -- "These distempered days" -- The ordeal of Reconstruction -- The price of reunion -- "We cannot escape history".
