And the War Came · The Six Months That Tore America Apart

A week-by-week account of the six months between the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the Confederacy's decision to fire on Fort Sumter, the story of who wanted to break the union, who tried to save it, and how the war began

A vivid, colorful, week-by-week account of the most intensely political period in American history--the months between Abraham Lincoln's election and the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The arguments over secession, the attempts to avoid conflict, the missed opportunities are all captured in exciting detail