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.