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Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1961
ISBN 10: 0393095428ISBN 13: 9780393095425
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Zustand: Good. Good condition. (Asian Literature).
Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1961
ISBN 10: 0393095428ISBN 13: 9780393095425
Buch
Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Verlag: Cengage Gale, 1981
ISBN 10: 0810313626ISBN 13: 9780810313620
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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The people of the Union rallied to these very men as their hope for victory over the Confederacy after the disaster at Bull Run; a number of these signatories would die in actionThough it is much grander, this document did form the template of future fund raising for the Sanitary Commission; it is almost certainly the first document Lincoln and his Team of Rivals signed in its support?An extraordinary, unique broadside, signed by Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet; heroes like Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter fame; Army generals like Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, and Ambrose Burnside; early emancipation promoters like John C. Fremont and Benjamin Butler; founders of important fighting units like Thomas Meagher of the Irish Brigade; Navy notables like John Dahlgren and Charles Wilkes; and many othersAll the momentous year of 1860, the danger to the unity of the American nation had been increasing. Southerners were fed up with what they saw as Northern interference, constraints and hypocritical morality, and feared being relegated to a powerless minority if the western territories were not open to slavery and were admitted to the Union as free states. The election of Abraham Lincoln as President on November 8 was to them the last straw, and proved to be the catalyst for bringing the forty year antagonism between the South and North over slavery to a head. ?Fire-eating? secessionists, men who would split the nation asunder, long on the fringes of Southern society and looked on by many as crackpots, had a meteoric rise to positions of influence. They found their vision of an independent South taken up by mainstream leaders and made instantly respectable. The idea of a rich, powerful, expansionist South creating an empire and new Roman-style ?classical age,? centered around the Caribbean, proved a heady wine that thrilled previously sensible souls. From election day in November through the long winter of 1860-61, the South went beyond visions and staged an uprising. State after state left the Union to form their own Southern commonwealth. Its people were delirious, even intoxicated with joy; strangers embraced on the streets. Their new world, free of the North, appeared to be imminent and only need be acted upon to become reality.In the North, the anxiety and confusion over the deteriorating state of the country and what to do about it developed into panic and desperation as more and more Southern states seceded, and it became evident that there was no clear way to stem the tide. Northerners believed that the South had maintained an unfair stranglehold on the Federal government for decades, and that Northerners had been constantly called upon to compromise their principles to appease the slaveholders. Now they saw that all their efforts and painful accommodations had been for nothing. Many considered that Southerners had played them for fools. To add insult to injury, cocky U.S. government functionaries from the South sported secession badges and publicly proclaimed loyalty to the South, some even swearing to prevent the inauguration of the lawfully elected incoming President Lincoln. The clamor for something to be done grew with every treasonable act the North saw taken by a Southern state or politician, and this only increased when the seceded states began to seize U.S. government property located in their jurisdictions. The perceived Northern inaction in the face of escalating Southern actions created overwhelming tension and frustration in the North. One U.S. leader did stand up to actively resist the seizures: John A. Dix, who on January 29, 1861, while he was Secretary of the Treasury, famously wrote Treasury agents in New Orleans after Louisiana seceded: "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot? He became the toast of the North.As the winter ended and the spring of 1861 came on, Southerners were confident and bellicose, and considered their independence a fact, while Northerners felt ill-used, increasingly sullen and enraged. This proved to be an explosive combination. By April, the situation was extremely tense and emotions had built to a crescendo. On April 12, into this powder keg was quite literally dropped a match, the one that ignited the Confederate cannon that fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor and started the Civil War. The fort?s U.S. army garrison, led by Col. Robert Anderson, held out for days, and Anderson became a hero in the North, the living symbol of resistance to treason. Both North and South plunged immediately into a hysteria the likes of which no one alive today has experienced and which we can only imagine. War fever was pervasive, and both sides made calls for troops. The very air seemed vibrant and electric with excitement. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Civil War soldier and distinguished Supreme Court justice, described the feeling some three quarters of a century later, saying ?in our youths our lives were touched with fire.?In those April days, troops from New York and Massachusetts rushed toward Washington to defend the nation?s capital. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, who was a Southern sympathizer before secession, led the Massachusetts troops, and stopping in Annapolis to secure Maryland?s loyalty and thus Washington?s communication lines to the North, he threatened to arrest the Maryland legislature if it tried to secede. Nathaniel Banks, who shared responsibility for maintaining Maryland in the Union, actually arrested the police chief and commissioners of the city of Baltimore, and replaced the police force with one that had more carefully vetted pro-Union sympathies. Maryland did not secede, and for acting decisively, Butler and Banks were the talk of the North.In the weeks and months following Sumter, men all over the North put aside their personal lives, families, hopes and dreams, to fly to the colors and defend the country. And they were applauded for so doing by friends and family, in the press, and in the street.