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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book set in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Box has a little wear but actual books are good. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This first book in Bruce Catton’s monumental American Civil War trilogy opens with the Democratic Party’s Charleston Convention in 1860 and the split which ended with two Democratic candidates for the Presidency followed by the Republican Convention and the campaign which ended in Lincoln’s victory. With tension mounting it then covers the wave of secession in the South the firing of the first shots of the war at Fort Sumter the aligning of forces in the North and South and this volume ends with the first battle of the war at Bull Run. Bruce Catton superbly conveys at every stage the way the country first drifted and then was swept into war. We see Lincoln and Jefferson Davis even after Fort Sumter declaring that a peaceful solution could still be found and famously Robert E. Lee who was opposed to slavery preparing to fight for the Confederacy while the slave owning William T. Sherman lines up with the North. (MP)