Treated with the greatest civility : Winfield Scott, Robert Anderson, and the path to Fort Sumter -- Heroes and cowards : honor and shame in early Civil War surrenders -- Instinctively my hands went up : soldiers, agency, and surrender on the battlefield -- Better to be a prisoner than a corpse : surrender at the Battle of Gettysburg -- Worse than murder : Ulysses S. Grant, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and unconditional surrender -- To the last man : surrender and the hard war -- A convulsion at Appomattox : Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the uneasy peace -- Dying in the last ditch : Joseph Johnston, Richard Taylor, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the fall of the Cis-Mississippi Confederacy -- Without a government : Jeff Thompson, Edmund Kirby Smith, and the slow death of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy -- Never surrender : remembering (and forgetting) Civil War surrenders.