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Belles A-Ringing. This is what happens: a few days before a Union fleet is scuttled at Norfolk, the beauteous Mrs. Irad Seymour is taken prize on a Chippendale couch by her dashing brother-in-law Sam Seymour. Sam promptly dashes south to catch the cruiser Sumter as she runs the Union blockade off New Orleans. Set ashore at Cienfuegos, Cuba, he plays the big game against a Yankee consul and the little game with a local pippin named Coralita...
...hopes that the public and his colleagues may both awake in time. American public opinion is due for an "abrupt change some time in the near future if the present crisis continues. Changes of this type have been instituted by disasters such as those which occurred at Lexington, Fort Sumter and Pearl Harbor." The U.S. must not wait. "If the impending change in public opinion hinges upon such a disaster," Seitz warns, "it is clear that events may have advanced to a point where defeat is certain...
John Calhoun, born to the cotton rows and the linsey-woolsey of a South Carolina frontier farm, became the greatest spokesman the slave-owning aristocracy ever had. He loved the Union with a choked, subterranean passion, but his arguments led fatefully to secession and Fort Sumter. Desperately he yearned for the presidency, but he took such an uncompromising stand on so many unpopular and often sectional issues that he seemed consciously to be disqualifying himself for the big prize...
Armed with years of reading and research, Williams determined to refight the war from the opening shots at Fort Sumter. The result is no amateur's awkward foray. The first two volumes of Lincoln Finds a General (two more to come) already look like the soundest military history of the North yet written...
...September 1861 Mrs. Chesnut left the charm of "dear delightful Charleston," never so courtly as during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, visited in Richmond with the Jefferson Davises, got to White Sulphur Springs in time to hear about the victory at Bull Run, then moved to Mulberry, one of her father-in-law's plantations in South Carolina...