I just completed reading this book, which covers the period between Lincoln's election and the surrender of Fort Sumter (in Charleston Harbor) to the newly created Confederate forces. Setting aside the author's ridiculous preface in which he likens these events to Jan. 6 (and his other politically correct obeisances), he provides a day by day account of Major Anderson's nearly four month attempt to save the fort while his superiors in Washington dithered about what to do with it. Finally, after running out of food and ammunition, he succumbed to Confederate bombardment and surrendered the fort. Miraculously, no one had been killed on either side.
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