Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand Book

	Introduction	1
	Blueprint for Victory: Northern Strategy and Military Policy	8
	Rebellion and Conventional Warfare: Confederate Strategy and Military Policy	36
	Battlefield Tactics	60
	"Not the general but the soldier": The Study of Civil War Soldiers	81
	Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis: Comparing Presidential Leadership in the Civil War	96
	An Elusive Synthesis: Northern Politics during the Civil War	112
	Beyond State Rights: The Shadowy World of Confederate Politics	135
	A Constitutional Crisis	154
	What Did the Winners Win? The Social and Economic History of the North during the Civil War	174
	Behind the Lines: Confederate Economy and Society	201
	"Ours as well as that of the men": Women and Gender in the Civil War	228
	Slavery and Freedom in the Civil War South	241
	Notes	261
	Contributors	348
	Index	350