The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) Douglass One Famous House

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The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) Douglass One Famous Houseby 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