Title: Prologue to Sumter
Subjects: Causes, History, Politics and government, Sources, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United states, politics and government, 1865-1900
Places: Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.), Harpers Ferry (W. Va.), United States
Time periods: 1849-1877, 1857-1861, Civil War, 1861-1865, John Brown's Raid, 1859