What manner of men / Bell Irvin Wiley -- Have social historians lost the Civil War? : some preliminary demographic speculations / Maris A. Vinovskis -- Who joined the Confederate Army? : soldiers, civilians, and communities in Mississippi / Larry M. Logue -- Yankee recruits, conscripts, and illegal evaders / James W. Geary -- To "don the breeches, and slay them with a will!" : a host of women soldiers / Elizabeth D. Leonard -- On the march / Carlton McCarthy -- The life of the common soldier in the Union Army, 1861-1865 / Fred A. Shannon -- From finery to tatters / Bell Irvin Wiley -- Fun, frolics, and firewater / James I. Robertson, Jr. -- The negro as a soldier / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Heroes and cowards / Bell Irvin Wiley -- The Confederate as a fighting man / David Donald -- The rebels are barbarians / Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson -- The infantry firefight / Paddy Griffith -- Leaving their mark on the battlefield / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- The nature of battle / Earl J. Hess -- Trials of soul / Bell Irvin Wiley -- A study of morale in Civil War soldiers / Pete Maslowski -- Christian soldiers : the meaning of revivalism in the Confederate Army / Drew Gilpin Faust -- From volunteer to soldier : the psychology of service / Reid Mitchell -- Emotional responses to combat / Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reeves -- "Dangled over hell" : the trauma of the Civil War / Eric T. Dean, Jr. -- The values of Civil War soldiers / Michael Barton -- Embattled courage / Gerald F. Linderman -- On the altar of my country / James M. McPherson -- Holding on / Earl J. Hess -- The Civil War soldier and the art of dying / Drew Gilpin Faust.