Table of Contents
FATEFUL LIGHTNING
The American Civil War
text by William Hillenbrand
I. A FIREBELL IN THE NIGHT
Introduction
1) Sleeping Serpent
2) Propaganda War
3) To the Drum-Taps Prompt
II. ALL GREEN ALIKE
First Bull Run to Shiloh
1) In Bitter Earnest: First Bull Run
2) Mountain Victory: McClellan's West Virginia Campaign
3) Thirteen Stars and Eleven States: The Struggle for Kentucky and Missouri
4) A Crack in the Western Wall: Fort Donelson
5) The Devil's Own Day: Shiloh
III. THE CRUCIBLE OF COMMAND
Peninsular Campaign to Antietam
1) Slow Going on the York: Peninsular Campaign
2) Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up: The Seven Days
3) Headquarters and Hindquarters: Second Bull Run
4) Three Cigars and a Battle Order: Antietam
a) Across South Mountain
b) A Frenzy Seized Them
IV. WEARINESS AND RESOLVE
Fredericksburg to Vicksburg
1) High Valor and Bad Judgment: Fredericksburg
2) Standoff at Stones River
3) The Key in Mr. Lincoln's Pocket: Vicksburg
a) The Long Way 'Round
b) Closing the Ring
V. FATEFUL LIGHTNING
Chancellorsville to Chattanooga
1) Over the River and Under the Trees: Chancellorsville
2) The Fiery Trial Through Which We Pass: Gettysburg
a) To Find and Fight
b) The Enemy is There
c) Race for High Ground
d) A Gambler's Chance
e) The Hand is Played
f) A Vast Mournful Roar
g) All That Men Can Do
3) In Letters of Blood: Chickamauga
4) Eclipse of the South: Chattanooga
VI. EVERY DAY AND EVERY HOUR
The Wilderness to Atlanta
1) No Turning Back: The Wilderness
2) By the Left Flank: Spotsylvania
3) At All Hazards: Cold Harbor
4) End Run: Cold Harbor to Petersburg
5) Sherman at the Gates: Atlanta
a) Assail and Not Defend
b) Hell Has Broke Loose
c) A Grand Left Wheel
d) Atlanta is Ours
VII. LET THE THING BE PRESSED
Petersburg to Appomattox
1) The King of the North Shall Come: Siege of Petersburg
2) "Sheridan! Sheridan!: Cedar Creek
3) Darkest of All Decembers: Franklin and Nashville
4) Uncle Billy's Whirlwind: Sherman's March
5) We Who Are Left: Five Forks
6) An Awed Stillness: Appomattox