The lower South secedes --
The crisis at Fort Sumter --
The opposing sides, II --
First Manassas or Bull Run --
Contending for the borderstates --
Early Union triumphs in the west --
The Peninsula campaign --
pt. II: The Seven Days' battles --
The Kentucky campaign of 1862 --
The background to emancipation --
Emancipation completed --
Sinews of war-finance and supply --
The War in the west, winter 1862-63 --
The war in Virginia, winter and spring 1862-63 --
Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma --
A season of uncertainty, summer and fall 1863 --
pt. III: Grant at Chattanooga --
African-Americans in wartime, I --
African-Americans in wartime, II --
Wartime reconstruction --
The river war & Confederate commerce raiders --
Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia --
The wilderness to Spotsylvania --
pt. IV: Cold Harbor to Petersburg --
The Confederate home front, I --
The Confederate home front, II --
The Northern home front, I --
The Northern home front, II --
Mobile Bay and Atlanta --
Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley --
Petersburg to Appomattox --
Closing scenes and reckonings --