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  • Twelve Days

    How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War

    by Tony Silber ...
    In the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that followed. The twelve days that began with the federal evacuation of the fort and ended with the arrival of the New York Seventh Militia Regiment in Washington were critically important. The nation’s ... Read more

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    Twelve Days

    How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War

    by Tony Silber ...
    Narrated by Lee Goettl ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    In the popular literature of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the battles and changes in American life.Tony Silber's account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand ... Read more

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  • Don’t Know Much About® the Civil War

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