Gone with the Glory

Brian Steel Wills is director of the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest, The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia, and No Ordinary College: A History of the University of Virginia at Wise.

Introduction: Hollywood's Civil War
Chapter 1: The Birth of Civil War Cinema
Chapter 2: Victory on the Rails
Chapter 3: The Romantic Era of Civil War Cinema
Chapter 4: The House Divided
Chapter 5: The Personal War
Chapter 6: War without Boundaries
Chapter 7: The West's Civil War
Chapter 8: Shiloh's Bloody Harvest
Chapter 9: Confederates Raid Vermont
Chapter 10: The Music Teacher Raids Mississippi
Chapter 11: A Stomach for War
Chapter 12: Enough Glory for All
Chapter 13: The Angels of Gettysburg
Chapter 14: The Plight of the Prisoners of War
Chapter 15: The War and the Waves
Conclusion: Screening the "Real War"
Appendix A: Filmography
Appendix B: Actors Who Wore the Blue
Appendix C: Actors Who Wore the Gray
Appendix D: The Best and Worse of Civil War Cinema
Bibliography