Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart

by Robert J. Cook, Elizabeth R. Varon, William L. Barney, et al.

Book Overview

What prompted southern secession in the winter of 1860-61 and why did secession culminate in the American Civil War?

Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421408961
• ISBN13: 9781421408965
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"