Table of Contents:
  • Conservatism's dying ember: Fitz John Porter and the Union war, 1862 / John J. Hennessy
  • "Too bad, poor fellows": Joseph K. F. Mansfield and the XII Corps at Antietam / Thomas G. Clemens
  • An "acting major general": Charles Champion Gilbert at Perryville / Kenneth W. Noe
  • "The longest and clearest head of any general officer": george gordon meade as corps commander, december 1862 june 1863 / Christopher S. Stowe
  • Grant's junior lieutenant: James B. McPherson and the Vicksburg Campaign, 1863 / Steven E. Woodworth
  • William B. Franklin and the XIX Corps in the trans-Mississippi, 1863-64 / Mark A. Snell
  • "Always Fighting Joe'": Joseph Hooker and the campaign in North Georgia, May-July 1864 / Ethan S. Rafuse
  • Winfield Scott Hancock and the Overland Campaign / Brooks D. Simpson.