The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) young readers he refused to back down

he refused to back down from his belief that there is more that unites us than divides us

By the early twentieth century

Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River

here is the only book-length account of this combat

The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) young readers he refused to back downby Bruce Chadwick The first ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians have described the attack in many well regarded books, yet the event still remains overlooked at times in the minds of the