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Tables of Contents for The American Civil War
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
7
2
Chronology
9
2
Background to war
Sectional tensions divide the United States, 1820 -- 1860
11
5
Outbreak
Election; Southern secession; creation of the Confederacy
16
6
Warring sides
Strengths and weaknesses of the Union and the Confederacy
22
4
The fighting
From First Manassas to Chancellorsville
26
44
Common soldiers
Federals and Confederates in camp and in battle
70
5
Portrait of a soldier
Robert Augustus Moor, a Confederate Soldier
75
4
The world around war
Northern and Southern society adjust to the demands of war
79
8
Portrait of a civilian
Elizabeth Herndon Maury on the Virginia home front
87
4
How the period ended
An uncertain future
91
2
Further reading
93
1
Index
94