Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Prologue: "The Saddest Sound I Ever Heard"; Part 1. Before the War; 1. "A Peculiar Period in My Pilgrimage"; 2. "Slavery Is an Evil That Ought Not to Exist"; 3. "My Plans Overthrown. Life All Changed."; 4. "At Alexandria . . . the Potomac Rolls Its Majestic Stream"; Part 2. During the War; 5. "Civil War Is Upon Us"; 6. "My Way Seems Clear to Go"; 7. "What a Place I Have Found"; 8. "Mrs. J and I May Carry Out Our Plans"; 9. "An Interfering and Troublesome Person"; 10. "I Wish to . . . Fight It Through"

11. "Will It Pay?"12. "As Good a Spot as Could Be Obtained"; 13. "Things as Usual, Quite Unsettled"; 14. "Flung My Flag to the Breeze"; Part 3. After the War; 15. "The Paraphernalia of War Is Fast Disappearing"; 16. "That I Might Be There to See"; Epilogue: "The Burial Was at Avon"; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Abbreviated Wilbur Family History; Notes; Bibliography; Index