First blood -- A clash of ironclads -- Shiloh -- The Cleopatra of the secession -- The great locomotive chase -- Robert E. Lee in Northern Virginia -- The deadliest day -- Chancellorsville -- Horse and steel -- Gettysburg -- The making of the Confederate navy -- The 54th Massachusetts -- Morgan's Raid -- The Confederate Thermopylae -- The Rock of Chickamauga -- Mary Edwards Walker, Union nurse -- Grant versus Lee -- Mobile Bay -- The presidential election of 1864 -- The end of the line.