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A House Divided: Origins Of The US Civil War Kindle Edition

by Greg Goebel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

At the beginning of the 19th century, the general belief in the United States was that slavery would die out in America. Fifty years later, it was all too much alive, with tensions between the slaveholding South and the industrialized North growing towards an explosion. In late 1859, an anti-slavery extremist John Brown performed a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with the intent of starting a slave rebellion. The action was slapdash and a complete failure, its only real result being to set tensions between the North and the South to the breaking point. The breaking point finally came with the election of Abraham Lincoln to the American presidency in 1860. His very election began the rush towards secession, and from the outset of his presidency, Lincoln had a crisis on his hands. The slide towards war proved irresistible; fighting finally broke out in the spring of 1861, when the new secessionist government of the break-away Southern states bombarded Fort Sumter, a Union outpost in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The first actions were disorganized to the point of haphazard, concluding in a major confrontation between Northern and Southern armies near Manassas in Virginia. The battle ended in Union defeat, though the Confederate victory was hardly decisive -- both sides beginning to realize that they faced hard war. This book describes the events leading up to the US Civil War, and the breach between North and South in 1861. [revcode v1.3 / 08-23]

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B075SD2DTC
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 19, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3.0 MB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 112 pages

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- #433 in Abolition History of the U.S.
- #2,772 in History of Individual Wars
- #7,187 in U.S. Civil War History

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For anybody interested in personal details, not so much to say. I was born in 1953, grew up in the 60s, did a hitch in the US Army in the 1970s -- then got an electronics tech degree, leading to a computer engineering degree. I spent the 1980s and 1990s in the tech industry, mostly in a service-support role, then dropped out to start writing full-time.

I've lived in the US West all my settled life, currently in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. I live a comfortable and independent existence by myself, writing little books in quantity, playing my portable Yamaha keyboards, watching sci-fi and anime, playing video games a bit, plus a few other hobbies. I'm hoping to get a wider audience for my writings, but it's taking time.

The photo was taken in 2008 at the Dallas Zoo. I look the same today, just a bit more weather-beaten.