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Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War Paperback - 2002
by David Detzer
Summary
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 the war until he finally had no choice but to fight.
Skillfully re-created from a decade of extensive research, Allegiance exposes the passions that led to the fighting, the sober reflections of the man who restrained its outbreak, and the individuals on both sides who changed American history forever.
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 the war until he finally had no choice but to fight.
Skillfully re-created from a decade of extensive research, Allegiance exposes the passions that led to the fighting, the sober reflections of the man who restrained its outbreak, and the individuals on both sides who changed American history forever.
First line
In the autumn of 1860 a train rattled over the damp, mostly desolate landscape just north of Charleston, South Carolina; then, with no genteel preliminaries, it entered the outskirts of the city, pulled into a rambling station, and stopped.
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- Title Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War
- Author David Detzer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, San Diego. Cal.
- Date 2002-04-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780156007412 / 015600741X
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.11 x 6.04 x 1.06 in (23.14 x 15.34 x 2.69 cm)
- Reading level 1130
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) - Siege, 1861, Charleston (S.C.) - History - Civil War,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00050570
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.731
Media reviews
PRAISE FOR ALLEGIANCE
"A splendid story of people, ordinary and extraordinary, living through
extraordinary experiences . . . Their story has never before been told so well."--James M. McPherson
"Historical reporting at its best."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Allegiance should take a place as the definitive word on the first moments of
our greatest national tragedy."--William C. Davis
"A splendid story of people, ordinary and extraordinary, living through
extraordinary experiences . . . Their story has never before been told so well."--James M. McPherson
"Historical reporting at its best."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Allegiance should take a place as the definitive word on the first moments of
our greatest national tragedy."--William C. Davis
Citations
- Kliatt, 09/01/2002, Page 38
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