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| Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, South Carolina |
FORT SUMTER (Part the Second)
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| Francis W. Pickens (1805-1869) |
In which we continue our discussion of the events surrounding the growing crisis over the possession of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor.
Our book recommendation for this episode is A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 by Russell F. Weigley
“Readers will find much to debate in this book- including its interpretations of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, its implication that a superficially united Confederacy was doomed to defeat, and its affirmation that, because of emancipation, ‘the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude… that war is always futile, that its rewards never match its costs, that any conflict [must be] immediately decisive and virtually without loss of American lives.” ~ Gary W. Gallagher
Listen to Episode 31: FortSumterPartSecond
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| Adam J. Slemmer (1829-1868) |