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

Name: Allegiance Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780156007412

ISBN-10: 015600741X

ISBN-13: 9780156007412

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: David Detzer, Gene Smith

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Original and deeply human, this tense and surprising story, filled with indecisive bureaucrats, uninformed leaders, hotheaded politicians, and dedicated soldiers, is a clear and intimate portrait of the prolonged drama that unfolded at Fort Sumter and incited the first shot of the Civil War on April 12, 1861. The six-month-long agony that began with Lincoln's election in November sputtered from one crisis to the next, and finally exploded as the soldiers at Sumter neared starvation. With little help from Washington, D.C., Major Robert Anderson, a soldier whose experience had taught him above all that war is the poorest form of policy, almost single-handedly forestalled the beginning of…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

David Detzer is professor emeritus of history with Connecticut State University. He is the author of several books, including Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War; and The Brink: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and several dogs.



Foreword



Asunder



A Gentle Man



Salad Days



The Fulcrum



Twilight of the Old Union



Commanders and Chiefs



Slim Pickens, Stout Fort



Eventide



Dueling Flags



The Wolf at the Door



Hostages



The Boys on the Beach



Takes Two to Tango, But One Can Do the Twist All Alone



The Yellow Brick Road



That Little Bridge



A Mere Point of Honor



Ashes and Dust


Mystic Chords of Memory: A Postscript


Notes


Bibliography


Index