Lives & Memoirs
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)
Abner Doubleday
1876
3h 35m
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Abner Doubleday's firsthand account of the tense standoff at Charleston that opened the Civil War. As an officer inside Fort Sumter, he describes the anxious months and the first shots fired at Moultrie and Sumter. A front-row memoir of the war's opening scene.
Inside this audiobook
11 chapters
- 1Introduction, 01 - Ft. Moultrie in 186024m
- 2Preparations for Defence14m
- 3Preliminary Movements of the Secessionists18m
- 4The Removal to Ft. Sumter17m
- 5The First Overt Acts18m
- 6Effects of Anderson's Movement13m
- 7The Star of the West20m
- 8A Resort to Diplomacy21m
- 9The Crisis at Hand26m
- 10The Bombardment23m
- 11The Evacuation22m
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