Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War
By David Detzer.
Description
Foreward by Gene Smith, author of Lee and GrantAn 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 n...
ISBN(s)
0151006415, 9780151006410
