The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days that Shook the Union by John Lockwood & Charles Lockwood
The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days that Shook the Union by John Lockwood & Charles Lockwood
In the days immediately following the surrender of Fort Sumter to Confederate forces on April 14, 1861, Washington, D.C. was ripe for invasion. Surrounded on all sides by hostile forces and with only a small garrison to defend it, the city was effectively under siege and could easily have fallen -- a disaster that would have crippled the federal government, left the Northern states in disarray, and most likely ended the fight to preserve the Union before it had begun in earnest. On April 15, President Lincoln issued an emergency proclamation, calling upon the states loyal to the Union to send 75,000 troops to Washington. No one knew whether they would make it in time. The Siege of Washington offers a heart-pounding, minute-by-minute account of the first twelve days of the Civil War.
Oxford University Press, Hardcover, Book Club Edition, 2011
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