Gary W Gallagher & Joan Waugh 
The American War [EPUB ebook] 
A History of the Civil War Era

Chapter 1: Expansion, Nation, and Perception: The Road to Secession

Chapter 2: Two Republics Gird for War

Chapter 3: War in Earnest: Shifting Military Tides in 1862

Chapter 4: A War of Citizen-Soldiers

Chapter 5: The Process of Emancipation

Chapter 6: Heavy Blows But No Decision: The Winter of 1862 to the Spring of 1864

Chapter 7: A Struggle Between Nations

Chapter 8: Women and the War

Chapter 9: Pressing through to Union Victory: The Spring of 1864 through the Spring of 1865

Chapter 10: Reconstruction and the Problem of Reunification, 1863-1868

Chapter 11: The End of Reconstruction, 1868-1877

Chapter 12: The Wartime Generation Remembers the Conflict

Joan Waugh researches and writes about nineteenth-century America, specializing in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age eras. Waugh’s newest book is entitled U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which was awarded the Jefferson Davis Book Prize from the Museum of the Confederacy and the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography. Waugh’s other books include Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Harvard University, 1998), The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), and Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Waugh has been honored with three teaching prizes, including UCLA’s prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award.