1864: Proves pivotal to conflict's outcome   Blakely cannon questions   Cedar Creek: Artist sets his brush to preserving battle site   Cloyd's Mountain battle brief, but fierce   Cloyd's Mountain: Leaders emerged from fight   Cold Harbor's brave men lost in fierce Rebel firing   Fairfax encounter with Mosby shames Union   Fort Stevens: Battle saved Washington from destruction   Franklin left 'horrid recollections' for Rebels   Freemasons' bond saves officer from death   Gen. Early's summer march chills Washington   Gilmor's Raid: A mission with audacious goals   Gilmor: Train robbery almost derails a career   Grant's total-war strategy: Battle of the Wilderness   Grant's Waterloo: Cold Harbor   Great Beefsteak Raid provides Confederates with rations   Hagerstown saved by leaders' hasty action   Lexington's terrible summer of 1864   Maryland raid by Rebels tests loyalties, sows rancor   Monocacy: 'Testimonial in stone' on battle site   Monocacy: Horror of battle seen with eyes of a child   Monocacy: Wallace's delaying action at river makes Early too late   Mosby ranger: 'Nathan Hale of the Confederacy'   Mosby rangers: Front Royal recalls the brutal killings   Mosby's legend built by Greenback Raid   Mosby: Hunt for Gray Ghost was similar to 'Moby Dick'   Mosby: Love conquers all as Union's trap for the colonel fails   New Market: Sergeant saves colors, soldier   New Market: VMI cadets earn place in history   North Anna: Grant fooled, but Lee misses 'masterstroke'   North Mountain Depot: Sickness, death await captured Ohioans   Oberlin students defend the capital   Old South Ball still creates wonder   Petersburg: The bloody charge of the 1st Maine   Rebel campaign into Missouri   Rebel plot and germ warfare   Rebels' raid on ice cream melted into a joke   Review: 'Season of Fire' blazes with telling details of fights   Review: A thorough study of Atlanta campaign   Review: A victorious account of Chambersburg raid   Review: Book cuts a clear path to Wilderness battle   Review: New insights on what led to the Overland Campaign   Review: Unconvincing, cliche-ridden 'Dahlgren Affair'   Richmond: Union raid failed but ignited Confederate passions   Sherman: Atlanta's olympic endurance of Union shelling   Spotsylvania's horrific face-off   Spring Hill: Clash leaves enduring stain on Hood   Spy mission ends fatally for local Rebel   Staunton River Bridge: One gallant day of victory for Halifax rebels   Vermont town invaded by the South   Washington Arsenal: Memorial to tragedy of June 17, 1864   Wilmington the end of the Confederacy's safe harbor   Yellow Tavern: Little-known battle where 'Jeb' Stuart died