For Further Reading
E. Milby Burton, The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970. Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1961. Peter M. Chaitin & the Editors of Time-Life Books, The Coastal War: Chesapeake Bay to Rio Grande. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1984. Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Diary From Dixie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Samuel W. Crawford, The Genesis of the Civil War: The History of the Fall of Fort Sumter. New York: J. A. Hill & Company, 1898. Richard N. Current, Lincoln and the First Shot. Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1963. William C. Davis & the Editors of Time-Life Books, Brother Against Brother: The War Begins. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1983. Abner Doubleday, Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-’61. Spartanburg, S.C.: The Reprint Company, 1976. Originally published in 1876. Robert U. Johnson & Clarence C. Buel, editors, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 Volumes. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, Inc., 1956. Volumes 1 and 4. Emanuel Raymond Lewis, Seacoast Fortifications of the United States: An Introductory History. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. Kenneth M. Stampp, And the War Came. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1950. Philip Van Doren Stern, compiler, Prologue to Sumter: The Beginnings of the Civil War from the John Brown Raid to the Surrender of Fort Sumter. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1961. W. A. Swanberg, First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1957. U.S. War Department, War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880. Series I, Volumes I, XIV, XXVIII, & XXXV.
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Illustration Credits
Architect of the U.S. Capitol: [4]-5, [50]-51; Art Commission of the City of New York: [6]; William A. Bake: cover, [52]-53, [55], [56]-57, [58], [59], [61], [62]; Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: [36] (Dahlgren), [41] (Shaw), [49]; Civil War Times Illustrated: [14]-15; Collection of City Hall, Charleston, S.C.: [12]; Fort Sumter National Monument: [16], [26] (Chesnut), [37], [44]-45; Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion: [19], [20]-21, [22], [23], [25], [35], [38] (Seymour); Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York: [30]-31 (painting); National Park Service: [18] (Floyd), [26], [27], [28], [29], [30]-31 (flags), [34], [36] (Gillmore), [38] (Rhett), [40]-41 (battle scene), [42], [46], [48], [51] (inset); L. Kenneth Townsend: [8]-9.
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