Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. “The Most Adventuresome Member of That Adventurous Group” 3
2. “We Are a Class beyond the Common Ones” 12
3. “Fear God and Know No Other Fear” 22
4. “Madness and Fanaticism” 33
5. “We Predict for Them a Brilliant Future” 46
6. “War Is Not Glorious” 53
7. “An Honour to Be One of Them” 62
8. “Like a Duck on a June Bug” 75
9. “We Are Going to Whip the Yankees Like the Mischief ” 88
10. “I Have Had My Revenge Out of Pope” 105
11. “Who Could Not Conquer with Such Troops as These” 118
12. “The Lord of Hosts Was Plainly Fighting on Our Side” 128
13. “The Lord Bless Your Dirty Ragged Souls” 139
14. “Put on the War Paint!” 155
15. “An Exile from His Own Land of Alabama” 174
16. “Stuart Has Euchered Us Again” 194
17. “Like Some God of Battle” 212
18. “We Have a Magnificent Position . . .” 234
19. “You Men Stand Killing Better than Any I Know!” 247
20. “A System of Irritation” 268
21. “One Could Never Forget Him” 283
22. “Such Is the Fortune of War” 297
23. “I Want Jimmie to Be Just Like Him” 313
Appendix 329
Abbreviations 331
Notes 333
Bibliography 387
Index 403
Photographs follow page 187
