The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) young readers Packed with explanatory footnotes

Packed with explanatory footnotes

and reinterpreted time and again until the interpretations themselves have become untrustworthy

Grant—the man who had strung together victory after victory in the Western Theater

especially over the central issue of slavery

The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) young readers Packed with explanatory footnotesby Bruce Chadwick The first ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians have described the attack in many well regarded books, yet the event still remains overlooked at times in the minds of the