Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-142).

Guarding the homefront : Oregon Civil War regiments -- The hunt for John Wilkes Booth : two Portland men who chased down the assassin -- Blast upon your bugle : an Oregon senator makes the ultimate sacrifice -- Before the O.K. Corral : how the Civil War brought Virgil Earp to Portland -- The professors in Pickett's Charge : pioneers of Oregon higher education fought at Gettysburg -- The minister and the general : former foes reunited in Corvallis -- A forgotten hero : a Medal of Honor grave goes unmarked -- From plantation to pulpit : former slave becomes Portland minister -- Oregon's Confederate engineer : father of Portland's water system -- A forlorn hope : Vicksburg charge earns Medal of Honor -- Storming the ramparts : Oregonians display courage in North Carolina -- A Quaker Civil War hero : buried on a mountaintop in Agness, Oregon -- Son of the prophet : John Brown's last son dies in Portland -- Angels of the battlefield : Oregon women who served as Civil War nurses -- The last Oregon Confederate : he rode with Cole Younger and Frank James -- Oregon's last Union veterans : one was famous, the other was not -- Appendix: A few good men : more noteworthy Oregon Civil War veterans.