Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I War Moves South -- Chapter One And So the Ball Was Opened 23 -- Chapter Two It Was There That War Found Him 40 -- Chapter Three U.S. "Unconditional Surrender" Grant 61 -- Chapter Four I Will Do the Best I Can 82 -- Chapter Five Anaconda Squeezes 100 -- Chapter Six Mississippians Don't Know, and Refuse to Learn, How to Surrender 124 -- Chapter Seven Sometimes Now We Can Get the Papers 141 -- Part II Vicissitudes -- Chapter Eight Grant Begins to Stir 165 -- Chapter Nine Until It Pleases God to Take Me . . . 181 -- Chapter Ten I Reached Vicksburg, Landed, Assaulted, and Failed 203 -- Chapter Eleven If You Can't Smile, Grin! 221 -- Chapter Twelve When We Can Do No Better We Will Blow Them Up 237 -- Chapter Thirteen I Fear Grant Won't Do 262 -- Chapter Fourteen So Thick a Snake Couldn't Wriggle Through It 279 -- Part III Corpse Factory -- Chapter Fifteen Enemy Will Soon Be upon Us 303 -- Chapter Sixteen Shut Up as in a Trap 329 -- Chapter Seventeen A Corpse Factory 354 -- Chapter Eighteen Martha Says Rats Are Hanging in the Market for Sale with the Mule Meat 380 -- Chapter Nineteen Father of Waters Again Goes Unvexed to the Sea 405 -- Chapter Twenty They'd All Be Dead Anyhow 433.