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Allegiance : Fort Sumter, Charleston and the Beginning of the Civil War

Allegiance : Fort Sumter, Charleston and the Beginning of the Civil War

Allegiance : Fort Sumter, Charleston and the Beginning of the Civil War
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Allegiance : Fort Sumter, Charleston and the Beginning of the Civil War

by Detzer, David

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Harcourt Trade Publishers. Used - Very Good. 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good.

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Foreward by Gene Smith, author of Lee and Grant An original and deeply human portrait of soldiers and civilians caught in the vortex of war. So vividly does Allegiance re-create the events leading to the firing of the first shot of the Civil War on April 12, 1861, that we can feel the fabric of the Union tearing apart. It is a tense and surprising story, filled with indecisive bureaucrats, uninformed leaders, hotheaded politicians, and dedicated and honorable soldiers on both sides. The six-month-long agony that began with Lincoln's election in November sputtered from one crisis to the next until Lincoln's inauguration, and finally exploded as the soldiers at Sumter neared starvation. At the center of this dramatic narrative is the heroic figure of Major Robert Anderson, a soldier whose experience had taught him above all that war is the poorest form of policy. With little help from Washington, D.C., Anderson almost single-handedly forestalled the beginning of the war until he finally had no choice but to fight. David Detzer's decade-long research illuminates the passions that led to the fighting, the sober reflections of the man who restrained its outbreak, and individuals on both sides who changed American history. No other historian has given us a clearer or more intimate picture of the human drama of Fort Sumter.

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Title
Allegiance : Fort Sumter, Charleston and the Beginning of the Civil War
Author
Detzer, David
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0151006415
ISBN 13
9780151006410
Publisher
Harcourt Trade Publishers
Place of Publication
New York
This edition first published
2001-04-12

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