The Confederate Reader

xxvi, 389 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; To Dissolve the Union; Fort Sumter; The Tune of Dixie; A Visit to the Capitol at Montgomery; Glorious, Triumphant and Complete Victory; The Texans Leave for War; A Skirmish of the Horse Artillery; A Prayer for Our Armies; Winter in Virginia; Naval Victory in Hampton Roads; The Texans Invade New Mexico; The Drummer Boy of Shiloh; Stealing the Telegraph; A Scout for Stuart; Beauregard Answers Butler; Behind the Lines in Carolina; General Robert Edward Lee; Morgan in Kentucky; A Hit at Everybody; Richmond Views of the News; The Battle of Fredericksburg; The Alabama Versus the Hatteras; The New Richmond Theatre; Mosby Makes a Night Raid; A Journey Across Texas; The South Mourns Jackson; Defeat at Vicksburg; Mule Meat at the Hotel de Vicksburg; Gettysburg; All-Out War; A Prayer by General Lee; In Camp Near Chickamauga; General Joseph E. Johnston; Dinner at the Oriental; The Close of '63; President Davis' Address to the Soldiers; Gaiety as Usual in Mobile; The Consequence of Desertion; Theatricals in the Army; The Bishop-General, Leonidas Polk; A Plea for the Reliable Gentleman; The Jews in Richmond; Spending the Seed Corn; Peace Negotiations; Victories in the Indian Territory; Sherman in Atlanta; In a Yankee Prison; To the Fields of the Southern Cause; Discipline in Lee's Army; In Sherman's Wake; Forbid it Heaven; Humiliation Spreads Her Ashes; The Glory of History is Honour; Great Disasters Have Overtaken Us; Secession Runs Its Course; Index.