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In this first book in Bruce Catton's trilogy on the American Civil War he describes the forces which combined to drive the United States apart. Opening with the Democratic Party's Charleston Convention in 1860 and the split which ended with two Democratic candidates for the Presidency, the Republic Convention and the campaign which ended in Lincoln's victory, the book takes its inevitable course to the wave of secession in the South, the firing of the first shots a Fort Sumter, the aligning of forces in the North and South, ending with the first battle of the war at Bull Run. Catton conveys the way the country first drifted, and then was swept, into war. We see Lincoln and Jefferson Davis pitted against each other and the famous generals, Robert E. Lee, fighting for the confederacy and William T. Sherman lining up with the North.
