- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Throughout the book, McPherson observes the reverence in which the flag (whether United States or Confederate) was held by Civil War soldiers. The symbolism of the flag revolved around the principles it stood for—union, the Constitution, the Founders, states’ rights, or simply home. But the existence of these lofty values didn’t mean that the physical object wasn’t precious in soldiers’ eyes as well. This was seen firsthand by poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) who was profoundly moved by the injuries he witnessed while visiting his brother, who was a Union soldier. The type of skirmish he mentions over the flag is…