Table of Contents
The following table of contents indicates how Milhollen and Mugridge divided the collection into five major sections and numerous subsections. The catalog records in this electronic edition repeat the name of the section and subsection from the original edition. The numbers listed at the end of each subsection are the photograph numbers that appear in the Time Line for the American Memory versions of this collection and in the MARC 510(c) field in the catalog records.
| Section I. The Main Eastern Theater of War | ||
|---|---|---|
| First Bull Run | July 1861 | 1-14 |
| Confederate Winter Quarters | 1861-1862 | 15-25 |
| The Peninsular Campaign | May-August, 1862 | 26-100 |
| Pope's Campaign | July-August, 1862 | 101-125 |
| Antietam | September-October, 1862 | 126-156 |
| Burnside and Hooker | November 1862-April 1863 | 157-184 |
| Gettysburg | June-July, 1863 | 185-209 |
| Meade in Virginia | August-November, 1863 | 210-241 |
| Winter Quarters at Brandy Station | December 1863-April 1864 | 242-285 |
| Grant's Wilderness Campaign | May-June, 1864 | 286-323 |
| The Army of the James | June 1864-April 1865 | 324-353 |
| The Siege of Petersburg | June 1864-April 1865 | 354-452 |
| Fallen Richmond | April-June, 1865 | 453-529 |
| Section II. The Federal Navy, and Seaborne Expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy | ||
| The Federal Navy | 1861-1865 | 530-569 |
| Fort Monroe and Hampton, Va. | 1864 | 570-578 |
| Port Royal, S.C. | 1861-1862 | 579-587 |
| Fort Pulaski, Ga. | April 1862 | 588-592 |
| Charleston, S.C. | 1863-1865 | 593-656 |
| Florida | 657-661 | |
| Fort Fisher, N.C. | January 1865 | 662-669 |
| Section III. The War in the West | ||
| Through the Fall of Vicksburg | July 1863 | 670-676 |
| Chattanooga | September-November, 1863 | 677-684 |
| The Siege of Knoxville | November-December, 1863 | 685-687 |
| Sherman in Atlanta | September-November, 1864 | 688-709 |
| Sherman at the Sea | December 1864 | 710-716 |
| Hood before Nashville | December 1864 | 717-723 |
| Section IV. Washington, 1862-1865 | ||
| The Capital at War | 724-751 | |
| Alexandria, Va. | 752-755 | |
| The Defenses of Washington | 756-797 | |
| The Hospitals | 798-808 | |
| The U.S. Sanitary and Christian Commissions | 809-816 | |
| The Assassination of President Lincoln | April-July, 1865 | 817-839 |
| The Grand Review of the Army | May 1865 | 840-854 |
| The Execution of Captain Henry Wirz | November 1865 | 855-858 |
| Artillery | 859-863 | |
| Miscellany | 864-869 | |
| Section V. Portraits | ||
| Officers of the United States Government | 870-878 | |
| Officers of the Federal Army | 879-1008 | |
| Officers of the Federal Navy | 1009-1019 | |
| Officers of the Confederate States Government | 1020-1023 | |
| Officers of the Confederate Army and Navy | 1024-1047 | |