| Chapter I. | Lee Makes His Last Desperate Plan | 1 |
| Chapter II. | Fort Stedman (March 25, 1865) | 14 |
| Chapter III. | Five Forks: A Study in Attenuation (March 29-April 1, 1865) | 22 |
| Chapter IV. | The Breaking of the Line | 41 |
| Chapter V. | The Threat of Starvation | 58 |
| Chapter VI. | "Has the Army Been Dissolved?" | 74 |
| Chapter VII. | A Letter Comes to Headquarters | 86 |
| Chapter VIII. | The Last Council of War | 105 |
| Chapter IX. | The Ninth of April | 117 |
| Chapter X. | The Final Bivouacs | 149 |
| Chapter XI. | The Sword of Robert E. Lee | 165 |
| Chapter XII. | Two Decisions | 188 |
| Chapter XIII. | A Third Decision | 215 |
| Chapter XIV. | The Road from Appomattox to Lexington | 226 |
| Chapter XV. | First Fruits at Washington College | 245 |
| Chapter XVI. | "My Boys" | 275 |
| Chapter XVII. | Lee and the Reconstruction Acts | 299 |
| Chapter XVIII. | A Social Conciliator | 320 |
| Chapter XIX. | The Return to Petersburg | 333 |
| Chapter XX. | The Johnston Affair and Old Animosities | 344 |
| Chapter XXI. | Salvaging the Wrecked Family Fortunes | 371 |
| Chapter XXII. | The General Revisits Familiar Scenes | 395 |
| Chapter XXIII. | Lee's Theory of Education | 420 |
| Chapter XXIV. | The Beginning of the End | 433 |
| Chapter XXV. | The Final Review | 444 |
| Chapter XXVI. | Farewell to Northern Virginia | 468 |
| Chapter XXVII. | "Strike the Tent!" | 482 |
| Chapter XXVIII. | The Pattern of a Life | 493 |
| Appendices | 507 |
| Acknowledgments | 529 |
| Short-Title Index | 541 |
| Bibliography | 543 |
| Index | 571 |
