Lincoln and the Decision for War

The Northern Response to Secession

• Author(s): Russell McClintock,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 388
• ISBN_10: 0807831883
  ISBN_13: 9780807831885
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) ,

Description:... When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking book, the first major study in over fifty years of how the North handled the secession crisis, Ru