Civil War America: Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (Paperback)

from estamm

Interesting but somewhat dry (my opinion) account of how the north reacted to all the succession fever that swept the south in the months following Lincoln's election. To a Civil War scholar, this is loaded with great information about what was going on in DC and the North before Lincoln's inaugu...

from Othemts

From our perspective the Civil War seems inevitable as soon as the southerns states declared themselves seceded from the Union. McClintock thesis is to examine from a Northern perspective of why war was necessary against this insurgency. There were other options such as a negotiated peace with co...

from anthonywillard

This is a political history of the northern states in the roughly six months from Lincoln's election to the bombardment of Fort Sumter. It is thorough and excruciatingly detailed. It is also repetitive and somewhat aimless. The political parties and popular opinion vacillated between aggressivene...

from Schmerguls

4800. Lincoln and the Decision for War The Northern Response to Secession, by Russell McClintock (read 15 Feb 2011) Though I have read books on Fort Sumter (W. A. Swanberg's First Blood (read 25 Nov 1990) and Maury Klein's Days of Defiance (read 5 Aug 2008)) this book deals with the events in the...