Title Page -- Dedication -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- GLOSSARY OF PARTICIPANTS -- Requiem -- PART I - RECONNAISSANCE -- 1 - Fall-Early Winter, 1861-1862 The City of Mud -- 2 - Fall-Early Winter, 1861-1862 Bowling Green -- 3 - Soldier Reborn Grant -- 4 - Soldier Born Forrest -- 5 - September 4-November 7, 1861 Grant at Paducah and Belmont -- 6 - November 8, 1861 East Tennessee Erupts -- 7 - December 28, 1861 Forrest at Sacramento -- 8 - January 19, 1862 Mill Springs, Kentucky -- 9 - January, 1862 False Starts and a Real One -- PART II - FORT HENRY -- 10 - February 3-5, 1862 Grant and Foote -- 11 - The Gunboats Rodgers and Foote-and Kountz -- 12 - To February 3 Grant, Halleck, and Fate -- 13 - Fort Henry to Late Morning of February 6 The Confederates -- 14 - February 6, Late Morning Attack -- 15 - Assailed and Assailants, Early Afternoon -- 16 - Victors and Vanquished, February 6 Late Afternoon and Evening -- 17 - After-Battle Observations -- 18 - Forrest, Early February Hopkinsville -- 19 - Hungering for Victory Grant and Halleck -- 20 - Consequences Februar y 7, Into the Heart of Dixie -- 21 - February 7-10 Grant and "The Crisis of the War in the West" -- 22 - Digesting Disaster The Confederates, February 7-8 -- 23 - Casting the Die Grant, February 10-12 -- PART III - "BATTLE FOR NASHVILLE": FORT DONELSON -- 24 - Wednesday, February 12, Grant Getting There -- 25 - Through February 12, Donelson's Leaders A Very Mixed Bag -- 26 - Thursday, February 13 Bloody False Starts and a Cold North Wind -- 27 - Friday, February 14 Forrest: "Parson, for God's sake, pray" -- 28 - Saturday, February 15, Morning Commanders Misjudged -- 29 - Early Afternoon Grant, Pillow, and Disaster in the Balance -- 30 - Sunday, February 16 A White Rag Rebuffed -- PART IV - SPOILS -- 31 - February 16, Forrest Leaving "Damn Your Judgment".

32 - February 16, Nashville Under the Gun "A Perfect Panic" -- 33 - Monday, February 17, Nashville and Fort Donelson Fear and Misery -- 34 - February 18-21, Union and Confederate Consequences -- 35 - February 18-23, Forrest in Nashville "Ruin at Every Step" -- 36 - February 16-March 13, Grant-Halleck "Enemys Between You and Myself" -- 37 - Mid-March, Harvest of Donelson A Military Governor -- 38 - February 23-Onward Forrest: "Come On, Boys" -- 39 - Early March 1862, Grant "Hope to Make a New Subject Soon" -- PART V - AFTERMATHS -- 40 - Aftermaths -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Acknowledgements -- INDEX -- Copyright Page.