The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) young readers here is the only book-length

here is the only book-length account of this combat

By the early twentieth century

This book contends that Gettysburg was a crucial Union victory

Grant—the man who had strung together victory after victory in the Western Theater

and reinterpreted time and again until the interpretations themselves have become untrustworthy

The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) young readers here is the only book-lengthby Bruce Chadwick The first ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians have described the attack in many well regarded books, yet the event still remains overlooked at times in the minds of the