"What prompted southern secession in the winter of 1860–61 and why did secession culminate in the American Civil War?Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians ..."
"Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays by three senior historians in "Secession Winter" explore the robust debates that preceded these events.For five months in the winter of 1860-1 ..."
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"DAW Books paperback original (1983). Includes the stories: "They Come and Go" by Joel Hagen; "Cat Tale" by Vicki Ann Heydron; "Bedtime Story" by Anodea Judith; "Wrong Number" by James Ian Elliot; "The Bardic Revel" essay by Marion Zimmer Bradley; "From Various and Sundry Bardic Revels" essay by Marion Zimmer Bradley; "Serpent's Lullabye" poem by Diana L. Paxson; "Morning Song" poem by Robert A. Cook; "The Berserk and the Bear's Sark" po ..."
Portsmouth at the Polls(Updated) One Hundred and Fifty Years of Reform Elections in a Naval Dockyard Borough, 1832-1982 by RobertCook Hardcover, 72 Pages, Published by K.A.F.Brewin Bks. ISBN-13: 978-0-947731-05-2, ISBN: 0-947731-05-9
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