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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom.
An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German
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Confederate centennial studies volume no. 7
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2020
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English
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"Rebels in the Making narrates and interprets secession in the fifteen slave states in 1860-1861. It is a political history informed by the socio-economic structures of the South and the varying forms they took across the region. It explains how a small minority of Southern radicals exploited the hopes and fears of Southern whites over slavery after Lincoln's election in November of 1860 to create and lead a revolutionary movement with broad support,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In this work the author presents a revisionist account of the period between Lincoln's election and the firing on Fort Sumter, evaluating the contributions of key figures and the circumstances that contributed to the Civil War's inevitability. In this carefully researched book the author gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war.
15) The Civil War
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The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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English
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In this book you will get an overview of the Civil War, including the cause of the war and how the war ended.
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History Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Join Charleston historian Doug Bostick as he traces the political turmoil of 1860 and early 1861, when the firebrands of secession in Charleston were pushing the South to act together in a decisive way. “The Union Is Dissolved” chronicles the face-off between professor and student-Robert Anderson and Pierre G.T. Beauregard-and the firing on Fort Sumter, signaling the beginning of the American Civil War. Featuring many historical images and first-person...
18) The coming fury
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1961.
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English
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The First volume of the centennial history opens with the Democratic convention in April 1860 at Charleston and closes with the Battle of Bull Run.
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