Table of Contents Preface: What's So Funny About the Civil War? Part I. "Crude partisan versifying on both sides": The Wartime Writers The Crackerbox Philosophers "Where are the women among . the 'literary comedians' of the 1860s?" The Biblical Satirists The Scarlet Copperhead "A period which produced so many good war songs, and so much bad war verse" Two Fremantles, a Mule, and the Civil Wargasm This Book Is Brought to You by the Committee to Elect George McClellan Appendix (or Is That Appendage?) "A delightful denunciation of Federal commanders" Are "Two Federal Pens" Mightier Than Two Swords? Part II. "The war was a draw game, and . both sides were whipped": The Post-War Writers How I Put Down the Rebellion My Real Story Will Never Get into the Century's Battles and Leaders Books After a While They All Sound the Same. But This One Looks Like a Comic Book The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword (or Is That the Pin?) The Many Lives of the Jordan Anderson Letter Grant vs. Lee A Tale of Two Kleggs Uncle Remus Was White! And Ambrose Bierce Was "an ­Equal-Opportunity Hater" An Unrenowned Warrior Postmodernism? We Haven't Even Done Modernism Yet! Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls Part III. "Those who still fight the last romantic war": The Next Generations The Blue and Gray in Black and White, Then in Technicolor What If Lincoln's Doctor's Dog Wrote a Biography? Frankly, I Do Give a Damn Happy Birthday, Gray and Blue States' Rights of the Living Dead Everything Old Is New Again Conclusion Chapter Notes Works Cited Index.