Prologue: The Mystery of Robert E. Lee -- The Garden Spot of Virginia -- The Making of an Engineer -- Marriage and the Third System -- Mission to the Mississippi -- Ruling the Aztec Sky -- To Serve as a Model for the Mighty World -- The Unpleasant Legacy -- I Will Cling to It to the Last -- The Decisions -- This is Not the Way to Accomplish Our Independence -- To Dash Against Mine Enemy and to Win -- The Savior of Richmond -- It is Well This is So Terrible! -- In This Heathen War the Fire of God Fills Him -- I Consider My Presence Here Always Necessary -- We Must Destroy This Army of Grant's -- Just as I Have Expected It Would End from the First -- An Indictment for Treason -- Every Student Must Be a Gentleman -- From the Great Deep to the Great Deep He Goes -- Epilogue: The Crime and the Glory of Robert E. Lee.