1861. Introduction / Craig L. Symonds --
Inside Sumter in '61 / James Chester --
First step in the war / Stephen D. Lee --
War preparations in the North / Jacob D. Cox --
Confederate Government at Montgomery / R. Barnwell Rhett --
Going to the front: recollections of a private by Warren Lee Goss --
First battle of Bull Run / P. G. T. Beauregard --
Responsibilities of the First Bull Run / Joseph E. Johnston --
Arkansas troops in the Battle of Wilson's Creek / N. B. Pearce --
Flanking column at Wilson's Creek / Franz Sigel --
1862. Introduction / Stephen W. Sears --
Gun-boats at Belmont and Fort Henry / Henry Walke --
Western Flotilla at Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow and Memphis / Henry Walke --
Capture of Fort Donelson / Lew Wallace --
Battle of Shiloh / Ulysses S. Grant --
Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh / S. H. Lockett --
Shiloh Battle: order and the withdrawal Sunday evening / Alexander Robert Chisolm --
Plan and construction of the "Merrimac" / John M. Brooke and John L. Porter --
Building of the "Monitor" / John Ericson --
First fight of iron clads [ironclads] / John Taylor Wood --
Farragut's capture of new Orleans / William T. Meredith --
Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah / John D. Imboden --
Peninsular campaign / George B. McClellan --
Second battle of Bull Run / John Pope --
Invasion of Maryland / James Longstreet --
Battle of Antietam / Jacob D. Cox --
Battle of Fredericksburg / James Longstreet --
1863. Introduction / James M. McPherson --
Chancellorsville campaign / Darius N. Couch --
Stonewall Jackson's last battle / James Power Smith --
Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania / James Longstreet --
First day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt --
Second day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt --
Third day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt --
Confederate retreat from Gettysburg / John D. Imboden --
Vicksburg campaign / Ulysses S. Grant --
Naval operations in the Vicksburg Campaign / James Russell Soley --
Capture of Port Hudson / Richard B. Irwin --
Chickamauga: the great battle of the West / Daniel H. Hill --
Chattanooga / Ulysses S. Grant --
1864. Introduction / Joan Waugh --
From the wilderness to Cold Harbor / E. M. Law --
Hand-to-hand fighting at Spotsylvania / G. Norton Galloway --
Sheridan's Richmond raid / Theo. F. Rodenbough --
General Lee in the wilderness campaign / Charles S. Venable --
Battle of the Petersburg crater / William H. Powell --
Duel between the "Alabama" and the "Kearsarge" / John M. Browne --
Colored troops at Petersburg / Henry Goddard Thomas --
Preparing for the campaigns of '64 / Ulysses S. Grant --
Struggle for Atlanta / Oliver O. Howard --
Farragut at Mobile Bay / John Coddington Kinney --
Invasion of Tennessee / J. B. Hood --
Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley / Wesley Merritt --
Repelling Hood's invasion of Tennessee / Henry Stone --
Early's march to Washington in 1864 / Jubal A. Early --
Sherman's advance from Atlanta / Oliver O. Howard --
Marching through Georgia and the Carolinas / Daniel Oakey --
1865. Introduction / James I. Robertson, Jr. --
Sherman's march from Savannah to Bentonville / Henry W. Slocum --
Navy at Fort Fisher / Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. --
Recapture of Fort Stedman / John F. Hartanft --
Five forks and the pursuit of Lee / Horace Porter --
Fall of Richmond: 1. The evacuation / Clement Sulivane --
II. The occupation / Thomas Thatcher Graves --
Surrender at Appomattox Court house / Horace Porter --
General Lee's farewell address to his army / Charles Marshall --
Final operations of Sherman's army / H. W. Slocum --
Last days of the Confederacy / Basil W. Duke, with notes on the Union and Confederate armies.