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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Series Editors' Preface | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ohio at the Center of the Nation | |
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| Abigail House Favors Free Soil in the Western Reserve | |
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| An Ohio Democrat Opposes the Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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| John P. Parker Recalls His Work on the Underground Railroad | |
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| The Kidnap and Return of Oliver Anderson | |
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| Charles H. Langston Addresses the Court in the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case | |
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| A Fugitive Case in Zanesville | |
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| Ohio Responds to John Brown's Raid | |
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| Salmon P. Chase: "The people desire Union and Concord" | |
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| The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis | |
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| Do the North and South Understand Each Other? | |
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| William Dennison's Inaugural Speech | |
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| Republicans Appeal to Iron Workers | |
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| Freedom of Lands to Actual Settlers | |
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| The Union-What Is It Worth? | |
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| Republicans Care Very Little about Slavery | |
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| The Brave Cheese-Mongers | |
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| Cleveland Welcomes Abraham Lincoln | |
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| Rutherford B. Hayes: "We shall of course not agree about the War" | |
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| A Belmont County Family Wants Peace | |
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| "I am going" | |
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| Taking Up and Giving Up a Short War | |
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| Troops in Columbus Are Not in "Apple-Pie Order" | |
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| A Cincinnati Woman Records the First Months of War | |
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| "Oh how hard it was to let him go" | |
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| The Farming Interest | |
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| Marietta's Working Class Organizes | |
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| Ohio Learns of Bull Run | |
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| "What is to be done with the helpless blacks?" | |
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| Governor Dennison Appeals for Aid for Ohio Soldiers | |
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| Dr. John B. Rice Defends the Honor of His Regiment at Shiloh | |
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| The Monarch Aids the Shiloh Wounded | |
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| A Report on the Ladies of Amesville | |
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| Debates over Liberty and Loyalty | |
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| More Than a Matter of Property | |
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| The Toledo Riot | |
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| The "Conscious Impotence" of Emancipation | |
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| "A few days more and the game will be up" | |
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| William Nelson Recalls Freedom in Ohio | |
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| Elizabeth Gray Reports on the Siege of Cincinnati | |
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| An Ohio Soldier Hunts Rebels in Kentucky | |
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| "The persons and property of the citizens are sacred" | |
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| "We have now...a divided north" | |
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| Lines of Battle: Soldiers and Their Communities | |
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| The Taylors' Battles Are Close to Home | |
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| Park Johnson Operates with the Eighteenth Ohio Infantry | |
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| "An inheritance to my beloved children" | |
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| Darwin D. Cody Fights at Chancellorsville | |
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| George Benson Fox and the "Seventy-fives" at Gettysburg | |
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| A Father and Son Go to War | |
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| "To secure justice to the colored soldiers" | |
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| The Costs of War | |
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| "The experiment has failed" | |
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| A Timely Word to Farmers | |
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| Welsh Immigrants Believe the Country Will Never Be the Same | |
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| The Trials of Vallandigham | |
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| A Citizen Recounts Morgan's Raid | |
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| "All can't go, all won't go and all don't want to go" | |
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| William A. Johnston Seeks Deserters in Coshocton | |
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| A Word to Laboring Men | |
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| The Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry Supports John Brough | |
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| A "Monstrous Outrage" in New Lisbon | |
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| "Shameful Conduct" of Women in Portsmouth | |
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| Sarah Rice Engages in Politics in Fremont | |
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| John Chase's Father Has Turned His Enemy | |
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| "I am just as I always was" | |
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| Prisoner Shootings at Camp Chase | |
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| The Battles of 1864 | |
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| A Soldier in the Fifth U.S. Colored Regiment Predicts a Brighter Day | |
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| "The negro question is only just opening upon us" | |
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| An Ohio Soldier in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Fights for Liberty | |
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| A Prognosis for Farmers | |
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| The Resolutions of Working Men in Cincinnati | |
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| Governor Brough Investigates Recruiting in Ohio | |
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| Chauncey Welton Explains "The eavel attending a chainge" | |
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| Republican Women in Salt Creek Take Action | |
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| "The 'public' is simply crazy" | |
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| Democrats Question the "Good Times" of the Lincoln Administration | |
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| Alvin C. Voris Believes the North Is Awakening | |
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| A Mother and Son Write of War | |
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| The Imprint of War | |
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| "Fourth of Julys, every one" | |
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| Benjamin Rees Advises Prospective Immigrants to Stay Home | |
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| Aplin Martin Comes Home | |
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| The Oberlin Committee Presses J. D. Cox on Black Suffrage | |
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| Benjamin Wade Speaks Out on Labor and Capital | |
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| Thomas Smith Dedicates the Soldiers' Monument in Washington County | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |