Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.
Introduction: Southern invincibility and confederate defeat -- The smile of providence: Confederate religion and invincibility -- The mask of calm: enemy images in rebel minds -- Without a murmur: Confederate endurance and the immediate war -- Gray grapevines: rumors and the distant war -- The face of surrender: diehard rebels in 1865 -- Conclusion: the aftermath of invincibility