Lincoln and the First Shot (Critical Periods of History)
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: February 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780881334982
Subjects: History; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); Historiography; Biography / Autobiography; History: American; United States - State & Local - General; Presidents & Heads of State; 1809-1865; Campaigns; Civil War, 1861-1865; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.); Lincoln, Abraham,; United States; United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877); History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
First sentence: THE six o'clock train from Philadelphia came to a halt, the locomotive steaming in the chill of the February dawn.