| [Part I]: The Awakening and Its Toll |
| Chapter | | Page |
| I. | The Call of Homestead | [1] |
| II. | The Seat of War | [23] |
| III. | The Spirit of Pittsburgh | [28] |
| IV. | The Attentat | [33] |
| V. | The Third Degree | [36] |
| VI. | The Jail | [44] |
| VII. | The Trial | [89] |
| [Part II]: The Penitentiary |
| I. | Desperate Thoughts | [95] |
| II. | The Will to Live | [113] |
| III. | Spectral Silence | [120] |
| IV. | A Ray of Light | [124] |
| V. | The Shop | [128] |
| VI. | My First Letter | [136] |
| VII. | Wingie | [140] |
| VIII. | To the Girl | [148] |
| IX. | Persecution | [152] |
| X. | The Yegg | [159] |
| XI. | The Route Sub Rosa | [174] |
| XII. | "Zuchthausbluethen" | [176] |
| XIII. | The Judas | [185] |
| XIV. | The Dip | [195] |
| XV. | The Urge of Sex | [201] |
| XVI. | The Warden's Threat | [209] |
| XVII. | The "Basket" Cell | [219] |
| XVIII. | The Solitary | [221] |
| XIX. | Memory-Guests | [232] |
| XX. | A Day in the Cell-House | [240] |
| XXI. | The Deeds of the Good to the Evil | [264] |
| XXII. | The Grist of the Prison-Mill | [270] |
| XXIII. | The Scales of Justice | [287] |
| XXIV. | Thoughts that Stole Out of Prison | [297] |
| XXV. | How Shall the Depths Cry? | [300] |
| XXVI. | Hiding the Evidence | [307] |
| XXVII. | Love's Dungeon Flower | [316] |
| XXVIII. | For Safety | [328] |
| XXIX. | Dreams of Freedom | [330] |
| XXX. | Whitewashed Again | [337] |
| XXXI. | "And by All Forgot, We Rot and Rot" | [342] |
| XXXII. | The Deviousness of Reform Law Applied | [352] |
| XXXIII. | The Tunnel | [355] |
| XXXIV. | The Death of Dick | [363] |
| XXXV. | An Alliance With the Birds | [364] |
| XXXVI. | The Underground | [375] |
| XXXVII. | Anxious Days | [382] |
| XXXVIII. | "How Men Their Brothers Maim" | [389] |
| XXXIX. | A New Plan of Escape | [395] |
| XL. | Done to Death | [401] |
| XLI. | The Shock at Buffalo | [409] |
| XLII. | Marred Lives | [418] |
| XLIII. | "Passing the Love of Woman" | [430] |
| XLIV. | Love's Daring | [441] |
| XLV. | The Bloom of "The Barren Staff" | [446] |
| XLVI. | A Child's Heart-Hunger | [453] |
| XLVII. | Chum | [458] |
| XLVIII. | Last Days | [465] |
| [Part III] |
| | The Workhouse | [473] |
| [Part IV] |
| | The Resurrection | [483] |