Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart

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

Book Overview

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 in Secession Winter explore the robust debates that preceded these events.

For five months in the winter of 1860-1861,...

• 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"