- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- January 1865
-
1 The Pageant and the Glory -
2 A House Divided -
3 Unflinching Leader -
4 River Runaways -
5 Glory Bound -
6 The New National Pastime at War -
7 The “Dark Hole” at Salisbury -
8 The Heroes of America Rise for the Union -
9 First Do No Harm -
10 The Battle of the Bands -
11 Banjos and Ballads -
12 The Women’s War -
13 Atrocity at Shelton Laurel -
14 Little Will Thomas and the Cherokee Legion -
15 The Burden of War -
16 Abraham Galloway -
17 Indivisible -
18 The Stockard Family’s War -
19 Onward Christian Soldiers -
20 Ministering Angel -
21 Dear My Beloved -
22 From Slave to Free Warrior -
23 The Gray Ghost -
24 Rose of the Rebellion -
25 Ironclad Men -
26 Writing the War -
27 Occupying Army -
28 A Merciful Reprieve at Poplar Grove -
29 The Iron Lifeline -
30 Gettysburg -
31 The Scholar-Warrior -
32 The Afterlives of the Dead -
33 Caught between Blue and Gray -
34 Wild’s African Legion -
35 Sisters of Mercy -
36 The Crater -
37 Deserters and Outliers -
38 The Last Hurrah of the Slavers -
39 Confederate Gibraltar -
40 Wilmington Falls -
41 Sherman’s Final March -
42 Johnston’s Last Stand -
43 The Great Surrender - Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Sources
- Index
Afterword
Afterword
- Chapter:
- (p.323) Afterword
- Source:
- The Last Battleground
- Author(s):
Philip Gerard
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
A reflection on the personal experience of writing the war-of a sense of grief and emotional ambush from encountering so many personal stories of anguish, suffering, death, and loss. Also admiration for wanton courage, often spent in an abominable cause. And a sense of great unfinished business, after a war that should have settled certain matters for good.
Keywords: Slavery, Existential War, Grief, Emotional Ambush, Great American Mystery, Alexander H. Stephens’s “Cornerstone Speech”, North Carolina Secession
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- January 1865
-
1 The Pageant and the Glory -
2 A House Divided -
3 Unflinching Leader -
4 River Runaways -
5 Glory Bound -
6 The New National Pastime at War -
7 The “Dark Hole” at Salisbury -
8 The Heroes of America Rise for the Union -
9 First Do No Harm -
10 The Battle of the Bands -
11 Banjos and Ballads -
12 The Women’s War -
13 Atrocity at Shelton Laurel -
14 Little Will Thomas and the Cherokee Legion -
15 The Burden of War -
16 Abraham Galloway -
17 Indivisible -
18 The Stockard Family’s War -
19 Onward Christian Soldiers -
20 Ministering Angel -
21 Dear My Beloved -
22 From Slave to Free Warrior -
23 The Gray Ghost -
24 Rose of the Rebellion -
25 Ironclad Men -
26 Writing the War -
27 Occupying Army -
28 A Merciful Reprieve at Poplar Grove -
29 The Iron Lifeline -
30 Gettysburg -
31 The Scholar-Warrior -
32 The Afterlives of the Dead -
33 Caught between Blue and Gray -
34 Wild’s African Legion -
35 Sisters of Mercy -
36 The Crater -
37 Deserters and Outliers -
38 The Last Hurrah of the Slavers -
39 Confederate Gibraltar -
40 Wilmington Falls -
41 Sherman’s Final March -
42 Johnston’s Last Stand -
43 The Great Surrender - Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Sources
- Index
