Part I. The Blind Ruck of Event: 1. Violent identifications: Civilian sectional rhetoric's during the American civil war Kimberly L. Harrison; 2. Reading, sociability, and warfare Sarah E. Gardner; 3. Reconstructing the civil war literature of injury, illness, and convalescence: caregivers, soldiers, and civilians Jane E. Schultz; 4. "The home and the camp so inseparable": Northern fictions and the union cause Allison M. Johnson; 5. The confederacy and other southern fictions Katharine A. Burnett; 6. The civil war ballad and its reconstruction Timothy Sweet; 7. The unfinished drama of the American civil war Matthew Rebhorn; 8. Walt Whitman and the reconstructive impulse of leaves of grass Samuel Graber; 9. Reconsidering Moses: Frances Ellen Watkins harper and reconstruction Eric Gardner; 10. From "Facts" to "Pictures": Rebecca Harding Davis and civil war memory Alicia Mischa Renfroe; Part II. Worlds Made and Remade: 11. The literature of reconstruction and the worlds the civil war might have made Brook Thomas; 12. Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the work of reconstruction Robert S. Levine; 13. African Americans, Africa, and the long watch night for freedom Barbara McCaskill; 14. Literature and the material cultures of confederate remembrance Kristen Treen; 15. Elmira and the postwar geographies of black monumentalizing Jill Spivey Caddell; 16. Charles Chesnutt and the reconstruction of black education Tess Chakkalakal; 17. Charles Chesnutt, the colonel's dream, and the futures of cotton Jennifer James; [...] v. Board, the civil war centennial, and the literature of civil rights Michael LeMahieu; 19. The future of civil war and reconstruction literature Cody Marrs; 20. Reenactment as resistance Patricia Davis.