Introduction: the desperate side of war / Daniel E. Sutherland -- Telling and retelling the legend of the "Free State of Jones" / Victoria E. Bynum -- "Shot for being bushwhackers": guerrilla war and extralegal violence in a north Georgia community, 1862-1865 / Jonathan D. Sarris -- "In time of war": Unionists hanged in Kinston, North Carolina, February 1864 / Lesley J. Gordon -- The politics of violence: Unionist pamphleteers in Virginia's inner Civil War / Jon L. Wakelyn -- The absence of violence: Confederates and Unionists in Culpepper County, Virginia / Daniel E. Sutherland -- Definitions of victory: east Tennessee Unionists in the Civil War and reconstruction / Noel C. Fisher -- A people's war: partisan conflict in Tennessee and Kentucky / B. Franklin Cooling -- The limits of dissent and loyalty in Texas / David Paul Smith -- "Out of stinking distance": the guerrilla war in Louisiana / Donald S. Frazier -- Bushwhackers, provosts, and tories: the guerrilla war in Arkansas / Robert R. Mackey -- Inside wars: the cultural crisis of warfare and the values of ordinary people / Michael Fellman.