Shades of Blue and Gray Series -- Key Command Ulysses S.Grant 's District of Cairo -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- One Company Town -- Two South Illinois -- Three Ready for the Scratch -- Four This Awful Sickly Place -- Five Lively Times in Cairo -- Six Mischief -- Seven Comfort for Our Boys -- Eight Night and Day and Sunday -- Nine A Brave Set of Men -- Ten Nothing of Importance -- Eleven The Cairo Ring -- Twelve Necessary Goods -- Thirteen Gone up the River -- Fourteen Burden of War -- Fifteen Illumination -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.