Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Seeds -- Chapter 2 Initial Test -- Chapter 3 Genesis -- Chapter 4 The Rank and File -- Chapter 5 Commanders and Their Companies -- Chapter 6 Discipline Problems -- Chapter 7 Desertion -- Chapter 8 Mine Run, Military Law, and Andrew B. Smith -- Chapter 9 South-Central Pennsylvania and Race -- Chapter 10 Winter Camp, the Overland Campaign,and Petersburg -- Chapter 11 Monocacy -- Chapter 12 Final Days of War -- Chapter 13 Postwar Politics and Reunions -- Epilogue Two Tales of Closure -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.