Delivered Under Fire is the biography of the U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect mail that contained some of the most personal and valuable information during the Civil War.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue: April 14, 1865
1. A Boy of the Buffalo Trace: 1825–55
2. A Man in Search of a Mission: 1856–61
3. Absalom Markland, Special Agent: 1861–62
4. “An Honored & Favored Man”: February–September 1862
5. “The Flood of Letters”: September 1862–64
6. “Twenty Tons of Mail”: 1864
7. “Trains Have Stopped Running, Except for the Mail”: January–April 1865
8. “A Mark of Friendship and Esteem”: April 1865–November 1868
9. “Our Continued Services Together”: 1868–71
10. The “Colonel” Becomes a “General”: 1872–84
11. A Man in Search of Himself: 1885–88
Epilogue: 1889–Today
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Candice Shy Hooper served on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Military History and on the board of directors of President Lincoln’s Cottage at the National Soldiers’ Home. She is a member of the Ulysses S. and Julia D. Grant Historical Home Advisory Board and a former president of the Johann Fust Library Foundation. She is the author of Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War—for Better and for Worse.