The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) young readers Lew Wallace prepared for a

Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River

he refused to back down from his belief that there is more that unites us than divides us

and reinterpreted time and again until the interpretations themselves have become untrustworthy

By the early twentieth century

The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War: An Oral History (Bruce Chadwick - CH) young readers Lew Wallace prepared for aby Bruce Chadwick The first ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians have described the attack in many well regarded books, yet the event still remains overlooked at times in the minds of the