Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction -- James M. McPherson
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Table of Contents

Prologue: The Setting of Conflict

Part One: The Coming of War

Chapter One: American Modernization, 1800-1860
Chapter Two: The Antebellum South
Chapter Three: The Ideological Conflict over Slavery
Chapter Four: Texas, Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850
Chapter Five: Filibusters, Fugitives, and Nativists
Chapter Six: Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party
Chapter Seven: The Deepening Crisis, 1857-1859
Chapter Eight: The Critical Year, 1859-1860
Chapter Nine: Secession and the Coming of War

Part Two: The Civil War

Chapter Ten: A Brothers’ War: The Upper South
Chapter Eleven: Mobilizing for War
Chapter Twelve: The Balance Sheet of War
Chapter Thirteen: The War at Home and Abroad
Chapter Fourteen: The Springtime of Northern Hope
Chapter Fifteen: Jackson and Lee Strike Back
Chapter Sixteen: Slavery and the War: Northern Politics, 1861-1862
Chapter Seventeen: The First Turning Point: Antietam and Emancipation
Chapter Eighteen: The Winter of Northern Discontent
Chapter Nineteen: The Second Turning Point: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga
Chapter Twenty: War Issues and Politics in 1863
Chapter Twenty-One: Behind the Lines
Chapter Twenty-Two: Wartime Reconstruction and the Freedpeople
Chapter Twenty-Three: Military Stalemate, 1864
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Third Turning Point: The Election of 1864
Chapter Twenty-Five: The End of the Confederacy

Part Three: Reconstruction

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Problems of Peace
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Origins of "Radical Reconstruction"
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Reconstruction and the Crisis of Impeachment
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The First Grant Administration
Chapter Thirty: The Southern Question, 1869-1872
Chapter Thirty-One: Social and Economic Reconstruction
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Retreat from Reconstruction
Chapter Thirty-Three: The New South Epilogue