From the Hartford, Connecticut, homestead where Harriet Beecher Stowe penned the galvanizing Uncle Tom's Cabin to Jefferson Davis's "White House of the Confederacy," and from the humble domicile in Appomattox Court House where the War Between the States ended to the quaint cottage where Ulysses S. Grant spent his last days, many of the Civil War's major figures can be better understood through their residences. Among the book's 200 photographs, all of the images of the houses are in full color, and in the text, the author of Mr. & Mrs. Madison's War details the accomplishments of the historical figures and the characteristics of their homes.