My thoughts are not here: the Civil War dance floor as multitemporal place / James A. Davis -- But that's the old wound, you see: Ambrose Bierce's Civil War poetry / Michael W. Schaefer -- Her bright smile haunts me still: imagining women in the Confederate minstrel shows on Johnson's Island, Ohio / Kirsten M. Schultz -- Do let me preserve the unities: the stakes of metaphor in Civil War-era fiction / Rebecca Entel -- One of the most beautiful villages that ever were seen: Civil War architecture / Megan Kate Nelson -- Dearest sister, who will care for mother now?: epistolary songs of the Civil War northern home front / Sabra Statham -- No partial picture: Peter F. Rothermel's The Battle of Gettysburg, Pickett's Charge / Barbaranne E. M. Liakos -- You women folks has no business to be here anyhow: romancing the war & women in Civil War memories on stage / Bethany D. Holmstrom -- Afterword: artists and soldiers