Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface 1 Introduction: Beginning at an End 3 Part One: The War 1. A War and Its Language 7 2. Spark, Fuel and Fire 11 3. The Acton Murders 19 4. "Over the earth I come" 24 5. "My heart is hardened" 39 Part Two: The Trials 6. "Ferreting out and punishing the guilty" 47 7. The Trials Begin 52 8.

 Questions of Legality 59 9. "A species of domestic rebellion" 65 10. Due Process and the Lack Thereof 69 11. The Rush to Judgment 84 12. Violation of the Law: Sibley's Error 89 Part Three: The Reckoning 13. March to the Gallows 99 14. Mass Punishment 114 15. The Executions 119 16.

 Concentration Camps and Ethnic Cleansing 126 17. The Later Military Commission Trials 132 Part Four: The Controversies 18. Crimes or Culture? 141 19. "The most horrible and nameless outrages" 152 20. "A fair fight": Crimes That Were Not Crimes 156 21. Exaggeration, Errors and Evidence: The Atrocity Debate 165 22. The Power of the ­Self-Perpetuating Myth 184 Part Five: The Aftermath 23. Misspelled Names, Misplaced Records and Mistaken Identities 191 24.

 Confusion and Contradictions 198 25. Oral Histories 207 26. Victims of Every Kind 218 27. After the Storm 222 Conclusion 226 Notes on Sources 231 Appendix: The Creation of Military Commissions 237 Chapter Notes 239 Bibliography 254 Index 261.