The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction: readings and writings from a novelist's perspective

For the new millennium, new perspectives on the Civil War and Reconstruction (as of 1997)

Fletcher Pratt's A short history of the Civil War: ordeal by fire

On James McPherson's For cause and comrades: why men fought in the Civil War

Classics of Civil War fiction

William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: Quentin! Listen!

Rediscovering a major Civil War novel : Joseph Stanley Pennell's The history of Rome Hanks and kindred matters

The innocent stare at the Civil War : Madison Jones's Nashville 1864: the dying of the light

O. Henry's Civil War surprises

The last American epic : the Civil War novels of father and son, Michael and Jeff Shaara

The simultaneous burning of nine bridges in east Tennessee

The sinking of the Sultana : a meditation on loss and forgetfulness

Willis Carr, sharpshooter, at Bleak House, Knoxville

Willis Carr meditates on the act of sketching : hair trigger pencil lines

Willis Carr, sharpshooter, meditates on photographs

A fever of dying : Henrietta Ramsey Lenoir and General William Price Sanders

The incendiary at the forks of the river

Fragments found on the field : Parson Brownlow and Dr. James Gettys Ramsey

Lincoln's second Gettysburg Address.