General Lee's army: from victory to collapse

Comedy of errors, tragedy of triumph

Secession and mobilizing for war

The Volunteers of '61

Why they enlisted

Becoming soldiers

"To slaughter one another like brutes"

"A great canvass city"

Keeping the army together

Clashes within the high command

Playing troops like fireflies

Lee in command

The battle for Richmond: the Seven Days' campaign

Taking war to the enemy

A failure of discipline

Lee's officer corps and army culture

The soldiers of '62

Supplying the army

Camp and recreation

Religion and morality

Chancellorsville

Arms and ammunition

The failure at Gettysburg

Home front

Blacks and the army

Combat

Lee and the high command

Preparing for the spring campaign of 1864

The overland campaign

The trenches

Medical care

Manpower

Desertion

The grind of war

Spiral of defeat

The final days

The sample.