Foreword / John T. Hubbell
Introduction : filtering the currents of Civil War incarceration : a fresh flow in scholarship / Michael P. Gray
Nature and prisons : toward an environmental history of captivity / Evan A. Kutzler
Civil War captives and a captivated home front : the rise of prisons as dark tourist destinations / Michael P. Gray
Catholics in captivity : priests, prisoners, and the living faith in Civil War military prisons / Angela M. Zombek
"The sternest feature of war" : prisoners of war and the practice of retaliation / Lorien L. Foote
Loathsome diseases and principles : conceptualizing race and slavery in Civil War prisons / Christopher Barr
"De bottom rails on top now" : black Union guards and Confederate prisoners of war / Kelly D. Mezurek
Johnson's island prison uncovered : an archaeological exploration of a northern Civil War prison / David R. Bush
Lost and found on the southern side : the resurrection of Camp Lawton / John K. Derden
Civil War prisons, memory, and the problem of reconciliation / Benjamin G. Cloyd.