Of bells, booms, sounds, and silences: listening to the civil war south / Mark M. Smith -- A compound of wonderful potency: women teachers of the north in the civil war south / Nina Silber -- Slaves, emancipation, and the powers of war: views from the Natchez district of Mississippi / Anthony E. Kaye -- Hearth, home, and family in the Fredericksburg campaign / George C. Rable -- The uncertainty of life: a profile of Virginia's civil war widows / Robert Kenzer -- Race, memory, and masculinity: black veterans recall the civil war / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- An inspiration to work: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, public orator / J. Matthew Gallman -- We are coming, father Abraham, eventually: the problem of northern nationalism in the Pennsylvania recruiting drives of 1862 / William Blair -- Living on the fault line: African American civilians and the Gettysburg campaign / Margaret S. Creighton -- Cannonballs and books: reading and the disruption of social ties on the New England home front / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- Deserters, civilians, and draft resistance in the north / Joan E. Cashin -- Mary Surratt and the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln / Elizabeth D. Leonard -- On the border: white children and the politics of war in Maryland / Peter W. Bardaglio -- Duty, country, race, and party: the Evans family of Ohio / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Union father, rebel son: families and the question of civil war loyalty / Amy E. Murrell