Editors' Introduction ix PART ONE: CONFEDERATE MARRIAGES The Marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis A Portrait of the President and the First Lady of the Confederacy 3(29) Carol K. Bleser The Lee Marriage 32(72) Emory M. Thomas ``A Sweet Solace to My Lonely Heart'' ``Stonewall'' and Mary Anna Jackson and the Civil War 49(20) Sarah E. Gardner ``Cupid Does Not Readily Give Way to Mars'' The Marriage of LaSalle Corbell and George E. Pickett 69(18) Lesley J. Gordon ``All Say They Are under Petticoat Government'' Lizinka Campbell Brown and Richard S. Ewell 87(17) Peter S. Carmichael The Marriage of Amelia Gayle and Josiah Gorgas 104(34) Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins PART TWO: UNION MARRIAGES A Marriage Tested by War Ulysses and Julia Grant 123(15) John Y. Simon General and Mrs. William T. Sherman, a Contentious Union 138(40) John F. Marszalek The Reconstruction of ``Home'' The Civil War and the Marriage of Lawrence and Fannie Chamberlain 157(21) Jennifer Lund Smith The Civil War Partnership of Elizabeth and George A. Custer 178(65) Shirley A. Leckie Permutations of a Marriage John Charles and Jessie Benton Fremont's Civil War Alliance 199(26) Pamela Herr ``A Good Wife, the Best Friend in the World'' The Marriage of Elizabeth Blair and S. Phillips Lee 225(18) Virginia Jeans Laas Notes 243(48) Authors' Biographies 291