The Confederate sketches in the volume are the following:
- A campaign with sharpshooters, by Captain John D. Young;
- A Ruse of war, by Captain John Scott;
- Confederate negro enlistments, by Edward Spencer;
- Fire, sword and the Halter, by General J. D. Imboden;
- Flight and capture of Jefferson Davis, by J. H. Reagan;
- General Stuart in camp and Field, by Colonel J. E. Cooke;
- Lee and Grant in the Wilderness, by General C. M. Wilcox;
- Lee in Pennsylvania, by General James Longtreet;
- Lee's West Virginia campaign, by General A. L. Long;
- Morgan's Indiana and Ohio raid, by General Basil W. Duke;
- Mr. Lincoln and the force bill, by Hon. A. R. Boteler;
- Stonewall Jackson and his men, by Major H. Kyd Douglas;
- Stonewall Jackson's Valley campaign, by Colonel William Allan;
- The battle of Fleetwood, by Major H. B. McClellan;
- The Black horse cavalry, by Colonel John Scott;
- The burning of Chambersburg, by General John McCausland;
- The campaign in Pennsylvania, by Colonel W. H. Taylar;
- The career of General A. P. Hill, by Hon. William E. Cameron;
- The Dalton-Atlanta operations, by General Joseph E. Johnston;
- The exchange of prisoners, by Judge Robert Ould;
- The last Confederate surrender, by [208] Lieutenant-General R. Taylor;
- The Mistakes of Gettysburg, by General James Longstreet;
- The morale of General Lee's army, by
- Rev. J. William Jones, D. D.;
- Torpedo service in Charleston Harbor, by General Beauregard;
- Van Dorn, the hero of Mississippi, by Major-General D. H. Manry;
- Vicksburg during the siege, by Edward S. Gregory.