Prologue to Sumter: The Beginnings of the Civil War from the John Brown Raid to the Surrender of Fort Sumter, Woven Into a Continuous Narrative |
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Contents
Introduction | 17 |
Echoes from Harpers Ferry | 29 |
The Trial of John Brown | 39 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Prologue to Sumter: The Beginnings of the Civil War from the John Brown Raid to the Surrender of Fort Sumter, Woven Into a Continuous Narrative Civil War centennial series Premier Civil War classics |
| Author | Philip Van Doren Stern |
| Editor | Philip Van Doren Stern |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 576 pages |
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