Silent cavalry: how Union soldiers from Alabama helped Sherman burn Atlanta--and then got written out of history

Cast of characters

Introduction

Maps

Part I. Varieties of racial education : What happened to Me at Ma 'n' Ada's ; The centrality of Gradystein Williams Hutchinson ; Saved by Uncle Sim ; Reading the stars ; My Rosetta Stone ; Chris Sheats: Phantom of the hills ; A discovery in Atlanta

Part II. Connecting the dots : How the first Alabama almost saved Atlanta from burning ; Quoth the general ; Open season in the Hill country ; A revolving spy ; The tattler of the hills ; In the Unionist pod

Part III. Marching to Savannah : Cotton thieves and draft dodgers ; The slaver owners' friend ; Chris Sheats in the wilderness ; A murderous conspiracy in the Whirling Hills ; Natural-born spies of the first Alabama ; The first fights of the fighting first ; Partners: a meeting of the minds ; In praise of amateur historians ; Dr. Kaeiser versus the feudists ; Meanwhile back at the war ; Paths of glory and obscurity ; Uncle Billy and his boys ; Skedaddling home

Part IV. Hiding the evidence : Viral Tuscaloosa and the aristocratic fallacy ; Bad boys of Richmond ; Lee's bad old man ; Hail Columbia ; Tom and Marie ; Smoking letters ; A scholarly lynching ; Birmingham money: the houses of Chisholm and Percy ; Three kingdoms ; The mountain king ; Last answer, last question ; The cutting room floor ; Forgotten, but not gone.