Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sutlers : unscrupulous swindlers -- Gettysburg : the ghostly horseman at Little Round Top -- Siege at Lexington : Battle of the hemp bales -- Fort Scott : western frontier post -- Wild Bill Hickok : Civil War scout and frontier gunfighter -- Kit Carson : Civil War soldier and frontiersman -- Battle of the mules -- Conscription Act : rich man's war, poor man's fight -- Sinking the Alabama : daring rover of the Confederacy -- Commandant Henry Wirz of Andersonville Prison -- William "Bloody Bill" Anderson : the demise of an infamous guerrilla -- Battle of Carthage : first significant land battle of the Civil War -- Fort Henry surrenders to the navy -- Women in the Civil War : fighting the stigma of weakness -- Civil War food and rations -- Titanic survivor wrote about the Civil War -- Civil War love feast : compassion and mercy -- Civil War aeronautics : silk balloons -- Losing the Indianola : the audacity and trickery of Admiral Porter -- John Charles Fremont : "Pathfinder of the West" -- Old Creek Chief Hopoeithleyohola : Civil War refugees -- Nathan Bedford Forrest : "When churchyards yawn" -- Captain William Clarke Quantrill and the desecration of his bones -- Colonel Samuel Colt's multi-shot killing machine.