Allegiance
Subtitle: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War
Contributors: Gene Smith (Foreword)
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: April 12, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780156007412
First sentence: In the autumn of 1860 a train rattled over the damp, mostly desolate landscape just north of Charleston, South Carolina; then, with no genteel preliminaries, it entered the outskirts of the city, pulled into a rambling station, and stopped.