The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865

The Lower South secedes

The Confederate States of America

Secession runs its course

A new day dawns

Enemies, spies, and traitors

and Reconstruction

Consolidating the government

The Confederate Congress

Money, bonds, and taxes

Diplomacy

War supplies and manufactories

Prices, profits, and labor

Agriculture, subsistence, and Negroes

Transportation and communication

Trade, blockade-running, and the Navy

Raising troops

Military policy, campaigns, and the aftermath

Internal dissensions

Progress and decay

Women, hospitals, and relief

Soldiers as fighters, deserters, and prisoners of war

The fine arts and the press

Literary activities, education, and religion

Longings for peace

and the end.