085 - And The War Began...: Fort Sumter Revisited

About this episode: 

It takes a cast to put on a play and our story this day is filled with characters that emoted passions raging from reasoned deliberation to knee-jerk and violent. And not only for the chain of events that led to the first confrontation of the American Civil War but throughout and  even beyond the four-year long conflict. Men and women caught in the cross-hairs of history or those that created them. This is the story of the characters and events that led to momentous drama in Charleston Harbor. This is the cast and story of Fort Sumter Revisited.  

 

Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:

Robert Anderson

James Buchanan

Winfield Scott

Robert Toombs

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Abner Doubleday

 

For Further Reading:

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

 

Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War by Maury Klein

 

Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut

 

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Producer: Dan Irving