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  • The scale of empire. AFTERMATH. 1880, the binding tie
  • The finishing thoughts of Festus Spencer as he looks into the camera
  • Frederick Douglass speaks before the anti-Mexican war abolitionists
  • Ample cause of war
  • General Taylor convinces himself that he is for war
  • Doubt
  • Letter to the Governor of Texas
  • Notes from Officer Hitchcock's lost leather journal
  • Liberation
  • By the end
  • Three hundred and seventy-two miles from home
  • Pokagon accepts Colonel Taylor's invitation
  • Colonel Zachary Taylor has Pokagon for tea
  • The escarpment
  • In private conversation: Buchanan to like minds
  • The book speaks of pretenders
  • South of Houston
  • Civil beginnings
  • Darling wife
  • Grey Jebediah
  • The bone boiler
  • Shadows
  • 1864, fragments of a camp near Yorktown
  • 1864, a pocket full of rye
  • Snake swamp
  • 1863, Walt Whitman reads to the limbless, dying
  • Linsey-Woolsey
  • 1864, dear mother
  • Gettysburg: blue and grey
  • A singular dispersion over Franklin, Tennessee
  • Lincoln dreams of Sarah, the servant
  • "If not for you"
  • 1863, Detroit riots, again
  • 1864, dear son
  • Private Athens Descries
  • Hannibal of Athens, Georgia
  • White glove test
  • Private Smith's primer
  • Br'er Rabbit in Chickamauga
  • Drummer boy
  • Interview: survivor, Fort Pillow
  • A second dream of Sarah
  • Nigger Pine
  • Lincoln speaks after the bones are thrown
  • The White immensities.