From the back cover:

"Discover the horror of slave life, and the Underground Railroad that helped its victims to escape.

See the weapons used on battlefields, from single-shot rifles to powerful Gatling guns.

Find out how Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860 and why he was assassinated."

Contents:

- The long argument

- Slave life

- The election of 1860

- The abolitionists

- Secession

- Raising armies

-Everyone's war

- Women at war

- Young and old

- Outfitting armies

- Bull Run

- Medical treatment

- Great commanders

- Arming soldiers

- Black volunteers

-The horsemen

- Army camp life

- Field artillery

- Gettysburg

- Vicksburg

- Northern life

- Confederate culture

- War on the water

- The secret war

- March to the Sea

- The Confederacy surrenders

- The fates of two leaders

- A life of freedom

- A new era begins

- Did you know?

- Timeline

• Publisher : DK Children; Illustrated edition (March 24, 2015)
• Language : English
• Library Binding : 72 pages
• ISBN-10 : 1465433600
• ISBN-13 : 978-1465433602
• Reading age : 8 - 12 years
• Grade level : 3 - 7
• Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
• Dimensions : 9 x 0.48 x 11.31 inches