Sister states, enemy states: the Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee

Part 1. Secession in Kentucky and Tennessee

Beleaguered loyalties : Kentucky unionism / Gary R. Matthews

Not a pariah, but a keystone : Kentucky and secession / Thomas C. Mackey

The vortex of secession : west Tennesseans and the rush to war / Derek W. Frisby

"An unconditional, straight-out Union man" : Parson Brownlow and the secession crisis in East Tennessee / Robert Tracy McKenzie

"We can never live in a southern confederacy" : the Civil War in East Tennessee / John D. Fowler

Part 2. Traitors, blacks, and guerrillas in wartime Kentucky and Tennessee

"Battle against the traitors" : unionist middle Tennesseans in the Ninth Kentucky Infantry and what they fought for / Kenneth W. Noe

"Time by the forelock" : Champ Ferguson and the borderland style of warfare / Brian D. McKnight

"I shoot the men and burn their houses" : home fires in the line of fire / Michael R. Bradley

Freedom is better than slavery : black families and soldiers in Civil War Kentucky / Marion B. Lucas

A long way from freedom : Camp Nelson refugees / Richard D. Sears

"Not much a friend to traiters no matter how beautiful" : the Union military and Confederate women in Civil War Kentucky / Kristen L. Streater

Part 3. War's impact in Kentucky and Tennessee

"My trust is still firmly fixed in God" : Alfred T. Fielder, his Christian faith, and the ordeal of war / Kent T. Dollar

An interrupted life : Colonel Sidney Smith Stanton / W. Calvin Dickinson

The failure of restoration : wartime reconstruction in Tennessee, 1862-1865 / Jonathan M. Atkins

Reconstruction power play : the 1867 mayoral election in Nashville, Tennessee / Ben H. Severance

After the horror : Kentucky in reconstruction / B. Franklin Cooling.