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Table of Contents
Introduction: War: The Red Animal
Chapter One: Slavery and the Long-Term Roots of the Civil War
Chapter Two: The Sectional Crisis, 1830-1850
Chapter Three: The 1850s, Secession, and the Start of War
Chapter Four: The War Begins
Chapter Five: Organizing and Mobilizing War
Chapter Six: In the Grip of War
Chapter Seven: Turning Points
Chapter Eight: War on the Homefront
Chapter Nine: The Union Grinds toward Victory
Chapter Ten: Union Victory and African American Freedom
Chapter Eleven: Reconstruction Begins
Chapter Twelve: Collapse of Reconstruction
Chapter Thirteen: America in the Late Ninteenth-Century