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This chapter details Stonewall Jackson's final movements on the battlefield, explaining what happened to Lee's great lieutenant in the chaotic woods west of Chancellorsville on the night of May 2. It presents a reconstruction of the general's reconnaissance along the Orange Plank Road and smaller side roads; the fateful volley from a North Carolina regiment that wreaked havoc on two parties of Confederate horsemen; and the painful injuries Jackson suffered while being carried to safety.

This chapter presents the letters written by Thomas Henry Carter to his wife Susan between January 20 and June 25, 1863. In these letters, Carter talks about how the opposing armies settled into winter quarters on opposite sides of the Rappahannock River following the Battle of Fredericksburg; the changes in Carter's King William Artillery in the first half of February, including the departure of Major General D. H. Hill to assume command of Confederate forces in North Carolina; Brigadier General William Nelson Pendleton's reorganization of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia; Hill's request to Carter to serve as his artillery chief, which the latter refused; the Battle of Chancellorsville on the Orange Turnpike; the confrontation between Stonewall Jackson and Major General Joseph Hooker; and Robert E. Lee's decision to invade the North for the second time.

This chapter addresses the various ways in which local forces in Oregon and Washington used the news of Portland's 1912 scandal to advance their own political agendas. An assessment of how the 1912 scandal spread to the small eastern Washington town of Walla Walla and there implicated John Gibson, a locally prominent newsman and church worker, is then provided. Dana Sleeth's bitter campaign against the Portland elites had helped crystallize at the local level the notion that the homosexual was a middle- and upper-class character, lacking any roots in the working classes. Edward Stonewall Jackson McAllister was a man who emerged as a central figure in the Portland scandal. The political and legal activities of McAllister are then described. Gibson's immediate repentance and the substantial support he enjoyed from locals shielded him from the kind of public humiliation suffered by McAllister.

The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia played a key role in the military actions in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. Recently, historical research and an archaeological survey were conducted at the Valley battlefields of the Battle of Front Royal, fought in 1862, and the Third Battle of Winchester, fought in September 1864. The first battle was part of Stonewall Jackson's infamous 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign while the second was the first of a series of Union victories in General Philip Sheridan's 1864 Valley Campaign, which resulted in the Union's control of the Shenandoah Valley. The two battlefields represent a study of contrasting expectations and findings. The archaeological imprint of a previous battle line was found in an unexpected position at Third Winchester while the remains of a poorly documented skirmish dating to 1864 was found on the 1862 Front Royal battlefield. Research domains relating to the archaeological imprints of battlefields, the proper use of historic documentation, and effective metal detector survey are considered in this article.

This book concludes by showing how Lee's army was regarded by the general public. In September 1862, 58-year-old Baltimorean Elizabeth Phoebe Key Howard cheered for close to five hours as men from Stonewall Jackson's old division marched past her. “The Confederate army was a sight that almost overcame me,” she admitted to her husband. “Dirty, (I must say it) bronzed by exposure—marked by hardship & suffering—badly clad from want—yet with a look of firm patient and cheerful endurance and unflinching courage and determination.” They were unlike any people Howard had ever seen. Mexican War veteran William Pitt Ballinger was not quite so wordy, but in eight words summarized these and other sentiments when he exclaimed in his diary after yet another Confederate victory, “What a glorious army that of Lee is.”