CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR; a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray(Annotated)

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Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US, 2021 M08 23 - 136 pages
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.

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