Sumter After the First Shots

Derek Smith

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9780811763288
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Everyone knows the story of how the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, but what happened to the fort after the first shots were fired there? The North wanted to restore Sumter to its rightful place in the Union and close the vital Confederate supply port of Charleston while the South needed to defend its birthplace and keep the supplies flowing--thus making Fort Sumter one of the most fervently attacked and most tenaciously defended pieces of real estate in the United or Confederate States of America throughout four years of war.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 “I Have Possession of Sumter”
• Chapter 2 Dueling Blue Bloods and Whispers of Mutiny—1862
• Chapter 3 A Gathering of Leviathans—1863
• Chapter 4 Du Pont's Attack—“A Grand and Imposing Spectacle”
• Chapter 5 “He May Knock Fort Sumter to Pieces”
• Chapter 6 “I Could Scarcely Restrain My Tears”
• Chapter 7 “Hold the Fort to the Last”
• Chapter 8 “I Will Assault Sumter Tonight”
• Chapter 9 “Sumter…Laughs at Her Enemy”
• Chapter 10 “Fort Sumter Can Be Taken at Any Time”—1864
• Chapter 11 “They Have Killed Me, Captain…”
• Chapter 12 “God Has Laid Us Very Low”—1865
• Epilogue The Postwar Years
• Glossary
• Fort Sumter Timeline of Events
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover
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