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Article: Detzer, David. Allegiance; Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the beginning of the Civil War.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

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Harcourt. 367p illus. notes. bibliog. index. c2001 0-15-400741-X. $15.00. JSA *

Professor Emeritus David Detzer has written an account of Fort Sumter that combines both detailed scholarship and immense readability, in a manner rarely found. Tracing the saga of Sumter from November 1860 through the immediate aftermath of its surrender in April 1861, the author deftly details the arrival of Major Robert Anderson in Charleston, South Carolina, to take charge of the battery at. Fort Moultrie, his transfer of his men to Fort Sumter, and their agonizing wait as the new administrations in both North and South stumbled toward the Civil War. In short, fast-paced chapters ...

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