"An awful responsibility": the making of a dissenter, 1818-1860
"My country! Oh my country!": Virginia leaves the Union
"Our flag was gone": The war's first year
"The bright rush of life": The making of the Richmond underground
Bet and the "beast": Butler finds his spy
"This precious dust": The clandestine reburial of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren
"The smoke of battle": Grant moves on Richmond
"A flaming altar": The fall of Richmond and its aftermath
"A fiery ordeal": The trials of a female politician
Epilogue: Van Lew's ghost.