Touched With Fire
Subtitle: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That Made Them
Edition: Export Ed edition
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: January 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781586482909
Subjects: American history; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Presidents & Heads of State; Military History - U.S. Civil War; U.S. President; Biography & Autobiography; History - Military / War; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Political History; Political Process - Leadership; United States - Civil War
First sentence: AT 4:30 A.M. on April 12, 1861, Lieutenant Henry S. Farley, an artillery officer in what would soon be the Army of the Confederate States of America, fired an old coast-defense mortar at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor.