On December 20, 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede, to leave the United States. “The Madness of the Hour chronicles some of the events in the city of Charleston that led to the madness.
Could the Civil War have been avoided is a useless question because it happened. South Carolina, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Missouri and Kentucky sort of seceeded. So did Arizona and New Mexico.
Fort Sumpter was bombarded for two days, April 12 to April 14 from Charleston and surrendered on the 14th. This book follows the events in Charleston that led to the bombardment of Fort Sumpter which became the beginning of the American Civil War where Americans fought Americans. The root cause was slavery. All the rest of the arguments about the cause are just so much talk.
During the course of the war Charlestown was destroyed.
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