| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Prologue | p. 3 |
| There were never such men in an army before | p. 16 |
| This Campaign is going to end this show | p. 32 |
| A perfectly surplus body of men | p. 46 |
| A universal panic prevails | p. 99 |
| The devil's to pay | p. 139 |
| The dutch run and leave us to fight | p. 177 |
| Go in, South Carolina! | p. 198 |
| The March Up | |
| The First Day | |
| People who will not give in | p. 9 |
| Victory will inevitably attend our arms | p. 64 |
| You will have to fight like the devil to hold your own | p. 115 |
| You stand alone, between the Rebel Army and your homes! | p. 155 |
| A goggle-eyed old snapping turtle | p. 80 |
| If the enemy is there to-morrow, we must attack him | p. 212 |
| The Second Day | |
| One of the bigger bubbles of the scum | p. 235 |
| You are to hold this ground at all costs | p. 257 |
| I have never been in a hotter place | p. 276 |
| The supreme moment of the war had come | p. 304 |
| Remember Harper's Ferry! | p. 322 |
| We are the Louisiana Tigers! | p. 335 |
| Let us have no more retreats | p. 353 |
| The Third Day | |
| The general plan of attack was unchanged | p. 373 |
| Are you going to do your duty today? | p. 388 |
| The shadow of a cloud across a sunny field | p. 405 |
| As clear a defeat as our army ever met with | p. 427 |
| There is bad faith somewhere | p. 441 |
| To Sweep & plunder the battle grounds | p. 466 |
| Epilogue | p. 475 |
| Notes | p. 483 |
| Index | p. 601 |