Cover Page; Belligerent Muse; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: When Lincoln Met Emerson, and the Two Addresses; Chapter Two: Walt Whitman's Real Wars; Chapter Three: Sherman the Writer; Chapter Four: Ambrose Bierce, Chickamauga, and Ways to Write History; Chapter Five: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Repeats Appomattox; Last Words; Notes; Index.
Summary
Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War.