At the Precipice

Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis

• Author(s): Shearer Davis Bowman,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 379
• ISBN_10: 0807833924
  ISBN_13: 9780807833926
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) ,

Description:... Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebell