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In time for the 150th anniversary of our defining national event: an original and altogether gripping account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, Americans began to rally around an idea of remaking the... read more
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- Mrs. Lincoln: Add a description of this character.
- Ellsworth
- Major Anderson
- Butler
- Buchanan
- Garfield
- Crittenden
- Winfield Scott
- Seward
- Jackson
- Shepard Mallory
- Doubleday
- Blair
- Fox
- Jefferson Davis
- Tyler
- Beauregard
- James
- Willis
- John Brown
- Winthrop
- Crawford
- Greeley
- Wigfall
- Floyd
- Jessie Fremont
- Baker
- Phillips
- Emerson
- Seymour
- John Hay
- Douglass
- Willie
- Willard
- Lyon
- Sumner
- Cary
- Corwin
- Kelley
- Thompson
- Bagby
- Walt Whitman
Setting & Locations edit
- Washington
- New York City
- Virginia
- America
- White House
- United States
- Charleston Harbor
- Ohio
- California
- Fort Moultrie
- St. Louis
- Missouri
- South Carolina
- New England
- Chicago
- Illinois
- Boston
- Springfield
- Alexandria
- Union
- Europe
- Pacific
- Massachusetts
- Richmond
- San Francisco
- Kansas
- Pennsylvania
- Mississippi
- Kentucky
- Texas
- Maryland
- Philadelphia
- Maine
- West Point
- Manhattan
- Atlantic
- Columbus
- Georgia
- Tennessee
- London
- Black Point
- Hampton
- Midwest
- Mexico
- Baltimore
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Kirkus Reviews: Best Nonfiction of 2011. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Adam Goodheart (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 5, 2011
ISBN: 1400040159
Page Count: 496
Publisher: Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 5, 2011
ISBN: 1400040159
Page Count: 496
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E459 .G66 2011
- Dewey: 973.711
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Book Review: The decision to leave didn't come easily.Maj. Robert Anderson had been ordered to command the federal garrison at Fort Moultrie, one of three forts protecting Charleston Harbor in South Carolina in 1860. More than 80 years earlier, the fort had been the scene of an American victory over the British just days before the Declaration of Independence. Anderson's father helped defend it.
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