Introduction / Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline E. Janney -- The two generals who resist each other: perceptions of Grant and Lee in the summer of 1864 / Gary W. Gallagher -- Repairing an army: a look at the new troops in the Army of Northern Virginia in May and June 1864 / Robert E. L. Krick -- I told him to go on: enduring Cold Harbor / Kathryn Shively Meier -- Breastworks are good things to have on battlefields: Confederate engineering operations and field fortifications in the Overland Campaign / Keith S. Bohannon -- Francis Channing Barlow's Civil War / Joan Waugh -- Grant's disengagement from Cold Harbor: June 12-13, 1864 / Gordon C. Rhea -- We will finish the war here: Confederate morale in the Petersburg trenches, June and July 1864 / M. Keith Harris -- A war thoroughfare: Confederate civilians and the Siege of Petersburg / Caroline E. Janney -- The devil himself could not have checked them: fighting with Black soldiers at the Crater / Kevin M. Levin -- The Battle of the Crater in recent fiction / Stephen Cushman.