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| List of Figures | |
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| Series Editors' Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Causes | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833 | |
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| Address to the Slaves of the US, 1843 | |
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| Address of the Southern Delegates to their Constituents, 1849 | |
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| Irrepressible Conflict, 1858 | |
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| Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Slaves Picking Cotton, 1858 | |
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| Last Speech, 1859 | |
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| Disunion to War | |
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| Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina, 1860 | |
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| Crittenden Compromise Proposal, 1860 | |
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| Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jefferson Davis about to become Provisional President of the Confederacy, 1861 | |
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| "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land," 1860 | |
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| First Inaugural Address, 1861 | |
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| Cornerstone Speech, 1861 | |
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| Approaching Conflict at Fort Sumter, 1861 | |
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| Battles | |
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| First Battle of Bull Run, 1861 | |
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| "1861," 1861 | |
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| Battle of Wilson Creek and Guerilla War in Missouri, 1861-62 | |
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| The Monitor Battles the Virginia (Merrimac), 1862 | |
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| Battle of Antietam, 1862 | |
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| Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 | |
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| Union Dead on the Gettysburg Battlefield, 1863 | |
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| Black-White Guerilla War in Florida, 1863 | |
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| Battle of Chickamauga, 1863 | |
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| Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1865 | |
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| General Report of Operations, 1864-65 | |
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| Soldiers' Experiences | |
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| A Woman in the New York Volunteers, 1862-64 | |
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| Preserving Discipline in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1863 | |
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| Union Soldiers Recovering from Wounds, 1864 | |
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| Union Soldiers under Fire, 1862-64 | |
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| Religion and the Daily Lives of Union Soldiers in Alabama, 1864 | |
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| A Confederate Officer Observes the Siege of Petersburg, 1864 | |
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| US Colored Cavalry in Virginia, 1864 | |
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| On Soldiers and Prostitutes, City Point, Virginia, 1864 | |
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| A Confederate Woman on Union Prisoners at Andersonville, 1865 | |
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| Homefronts | |
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| Confederate Women Prepare their Men for War, 1861 | |
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| Corruption in Washington, DC, 1862 | |
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| Contraband Camps in Alexandria, Virginia, 1863 | |
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| Life in Besieged Vicksburg, 1863 | |
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| Richmond Bread Riot, 1863 | |
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| Illustrated London News, New York City Draft Riot, 1863 | |
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| "Barbara Frietchie," 1864 | |
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| Political Perspectives | |
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| "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," 1862 | |
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| Union War Aims, 1862 | |
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| State Sovereignty in the Confederacy, 1862Joseph E. Brown | |
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| Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 | |
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| Northern Opposition to the Civil War, 1863 | |
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| "Men of Color to Arms!" 1863 | |
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| Gettysburg Address, 1863 | |
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| Democratic Caricature of Republican Racial Policy, 1864 | |
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| War for Slavery, 1865 | |
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| Second Inaugural Address, 1865 | |
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| The Trans-Mississippi West | |
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| Homestead Act, 1862 | |
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| Sand Creek Massacre, 1864 | |
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| Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1868 | |
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| Joining of the Rails, Promontory, Utah, 1869 | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Presidential Reconstruction, 1863 | |
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| African-American Refugees amid Ruins of Richmond, 1865 | |
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| State Convention of the Colored People of South Carolina, Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, 1865 | |
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| Congressional Reconstruction, 1865 | |
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| Reconstruction Amendments, 1865-70 | |
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| An Appeal to the Women of the United States, 1871 | |
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| Ku Klux Klan Terrorism, 1871 | |
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| Failure of Reconstruction, 1879 | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Index | |