Contents -- Foreword -- Publisher's Preface -- SECTION I: FACTS Naming the War -- Civil War Voices -- Did You Know? Interesting Facts About the Civil War -- What's in a Name? -- Civil War Veterans Better Known for Other Achievements -- Organization of the Armies -- SECTION 2: IMAGES OF WAR Civil War Begins -- Generals -- Soldiers -- A Soldier's Life -- Battles and Battlefields -- Technology and the War -- Weapons of War -- War on the Water -- Caring for the Sick, Wounded, and Dead -- Prisoners of War -- Civilians Caught up in the War -- Women and the War -- African Americans and the War -- The Civil War and Native Americans -- The War Ends -- Reconstruction -- SECTION III: FIGURES Numbers and Losses -- Strength of the Union Army -- Losses in Major Battles -- Number of Engagements Fought in Each State and Territory During the Civil War -- Alternate Names of Battles -- Troops Furnished by the Various States and Territories to the Union Army -- Causes of Battle Wounds -- Major Causes of Death -- Principal Union Prisons -- Principal Confederate Prisons -- SECTION IV: MISCELLANY African Americans in the Civil War -- Native Americans in the Civil War -- Glossary of Civil War Terms -- Civil War Points of Interest -- Civil War Bookshelf -- Civil War on the Web.