Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Coming of the American Civil War

by Glenn M. Linden

Book Overview

Voices from the Gathering Storm explains the dramatic change in thinking about the nature and value of the American Union from 1846 to 1861 which impelled citizens from 11 southern states to declare independence and the remaining 22 states to fight the bloodiest war in the nation's history. This reader tells the story of seventeen Northerners and Southerners who lived through the critical fifteen years prior to the Civil War. In their letters and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842029982
• ISBN13: 9780842029988
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"