The Journal of the Civil War EraVolume 2, Number 3September 2012TABLE OF CONTENTSArticlesRobert Fortenbaugh Memorial LectureJoan Waugh“I Only Knew What Was in My Mind”: Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of AppomattoxPatrick KellyThe North American Crisis of the 1860sCarole Emberton“Only Murder Makes Men”: Reconsidering the Black Military ExperienceCaroline E. Janney“I Yield to No Man an Iota of My Convictions”: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the Limits of ReconciliationBook ReviewsBooks ReceivedReview EssayDavid S. ReynoldsReading the Sesquicentennial: New Directions in the Popular History of the Civil WarNotes on ContributorsThe Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.