This Mighty Scourge

James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, which won the prestigious Lincoln Prize in 1998.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments I. Slavery and the Coming of War1. And the War Came2. Escape and Revolt in Black and White II. The Lost Cause Revisited 3. The Confederacy: A House Divided?4. Was the Best Defense a Good Offense? Jefferson Davis and Confederate Strategies5. The Saratoga That Wasn't: The Impact of Antietam Abroad6. To Conquer a Peace? Lee's Goals in the Gettysburg Campaign7. The Last Rebel: Jesse James8. Long-Legged Yankee Lies: The Lost Cause Textbook Crusade III. Architects of Victory9. "We Stand by Each Other Always": Grant and Sherman10. The Hard Hand of War11. Unvexed to the Sea: Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg Campaign IV. Home Front and Battle Front12. Brahmins at War13. "Spend Much Time in Reading the Daily Papers": The Press and Army Morale in the Civil War14. No Peace Without Victory, 1861-1865 V. Lincoln15. To Remember That He Had Lived16. "As Commander-in-Chief I Have a Right to Take Any Measure Which May Best Subdue the Enemy" NotesIndex

At first glance another reshuffle of some of Professor McPherson's impressively vast back-catalogue, is on closer inspection a much more timely, far more valuable, and revealing collection of one man's 'perspectives on the Civil War'.