Table of Contents: 
Introductory Notes
1. Reaping the Harvest of Death: The Burial of Union Soldiers at Marye’s Heights in December 1862 and May 1864 by Donald C. Pfanz
2. “I Should Look Forward to the Future” The Diary of Mary G. Caldwell, Part 2 Transcribed and Annotated by Russell P. Smith
3. Minutes of the Common Council of the Town of Fredericksburg, 1862 -1863, Transcribed and annotated by Erik F. Nelson
4. “Here Can be Found the Realities of War”: Diary of a Nine Months Volunteer by Corporal Casper W. Easly, Transcribed and annotated by Lawrence M McNiesh, MD and Daniel Chorik
5. Southern Exposure: A military photographer on the heels of a Federal assault by Erik F. Nelson