Captains of the Civil War: Large Print

ISBN-10: 1687258775
ISBN-13: 9781687258779
Series: Captains of the Civil War
Pages: 240
Language: English
Published: 2019-08-20
Author: William Wood

Description

States which claimed a sovereign right to secede from the Union naturally claimed the corresponding right to resume possession of all the land they had ceded to that Union's Government for the use of its naval and military posts. So South Carolina, after leading the way to secession on December 20, 1860, at once began to work for the retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port of Charleston. These defenses, being of vital consequence to both sides, were soon to attract the strained attention of the whole country...