Prologue: The Mystery of Robert E. Lee

The Garden Spot of Virginia

The Making of an Engineer

Marriage and the Third System

Mission to the Mississippi

Ruling the Aztec Sky

To Serve as a Model for the Mighty World

The Unpleasant Legacy

I Will Cling to It to the Last

The Decisions

This is Not the Way to Accomplish Our Independence

To Dash Against Mine Enemy and to Win

The Savior of Richmond

It is Well This is So Terrible!

In This Heathen War the Fire of God Fills Him

I Consider My Presence Here Always Necessary

We Must Destroy This Army of Grant's

Just as I Have Expected It Would End from the First

An Indictment for Treason

Every Student Must Be a Gentleman

From the Great Deep to the Great Deep He Goes

Epilogue: The Crime and the Glory of Robert E. Lee