The Siege of Washington, (Paperback)

from cyderry

At the time that the Union surrendered Fort Sumter and the war was starting, neither the Confederacy or the United States was prepared for war. Some of the southern states had yet to decide on secession (Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky) but the major issue for the North was the locat...

from SamSattler

Fortunately for the United States, when the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Southern states were as ill prepared to wage war as the Union states. Had it been otherwise, the South might have ended the war in a matter of days by overrunning the nation's...

from TLCrawford

John Lockwood's book "The Siege of Washington" looks at the twelve days after the fall of Fort Sumter when the nation's capital stood undefended in a sea of secessionists. Lockwood makes good use of diaries and memoirs to illustrate the claustrophobic sense of dread that the loyal citizens of Was...

from JaniceLiedl

Excellent history of a little-known aspect of the early war. Enjoyable for the non-specialist!