Preface
Part I: Humiliation
1. Rosebud: A Truncated Patrimony
2. In the Army: A Dead-end Career
3. Marriage Triangle
4. Failure as a Banker and Debts of Honor
5. Going South and Leaving: The Ambivalent Unionist
6. Into the Abyss: Collapse in War
Part II: Transformation
7. Ecstatic Resurrection at Shiloh
8. Purging the Devil: Sherman Assaults the Press
9. Turning Friends into Enemies
10. Niggers and Other Vagabonds
11. Rage at the South: Psychological Warrior
12. Facing Death: The Loss of Willy
13. The Selective Destroyer
14. Sherman the Forgiver: A Separate Peace
Part III: Fame
15. Indian Killer
16. Officeholder
17. Vagabond and Icon
18. Feuds: The Tests of Honor
19. The Struggle of Marriage, and Other Women
20. Crisis of Patrimony: The Loss of Tom
21. Celebration and Reconciliation
Abbreviations
Notes
Index