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Foreword vii
Preface xi
Chronology of Events xiii
Introduction 1
Genesis of Colonial Slavery 2
The Constitutional Debate on Slavery 5
Regional Development and New Discord 7
Impact of Reform 13
Chapter One: Tensions 18
Abolitionism and National Politics 19
Emerging Sectionalism 22
States’ Rights: Theory and Practice 26
Depression and the Second American Party System 29
Southern Fears 34
The High Tide of Reform 37
Chapter Two: A Temporary Armistice 45
Tippecanoe, Tyler, and Texas 46
Expansion and War with Mexico 49
Stalemate 54
California and Compromise 58
A Prophetic Statement 64
Chapter Three: Kansas, First Phase 69
Whig Disintegration 71
Young America 74
The Kansas-Nebraska Bill 79
Birth of the Republican Party 85
Bleeding Kansas 87
Chapter Four: Disruption 96
The Election of 1856 97
Dred Scott 99
Kansas, Second Phase 104
Lincoln and Douglas 109
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry 113
Panic and Political Paralysis 115
Chapter Five: Disunion 121
The Election of 1860 121
The Lower South Secedes 130
Buchanan and the National Crisis 131
War Begins 137
Bibliographical Explanations 144
Index 175
Maps
The United States in 1850 44
The Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854 68
The Election of 1860 120
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Dillon Jones
reviewed The Coming of the Civil War, 1837-1861 on December 30, 2019
The Coming of the Civil War, 1837-1861
The scholarship in Ninety-Eight Days is great, the writing is excellent, and I absolutely loved the structure: Grabau tells the story in parallel, from each side's perspective and knowing only what they know, as opposed to an omniscient third-party overhead view. While this doesn't make Pemberton look like a military genius, it definitely does make some of his errors and strange decisions a lot more understandable. He wasn't stupid; but he didn't know what he didn't know, he made some incorrect assumptions, and (most dam ning) vacillated at times instead of acting decisively. But one really gets an understanding of the situations he was in.
I think my only beefs are the use of modern/anachronistic military terminology (although, to be fair, Grabau uses the terminology clearly and effectively), and the fact that the maps are all consigned to the back of the book rather than interspersed with the narrative at appropriate points. I follow why he did this, as he refers to some of the same maps in multiple places, but it really requires a two-bookmark method of reading that I find a little distracting. The maps, despite the arrangement, are excellent.
I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone who has read an initial overview of the Vicksburg campaign and wants to take a deeper dive into it.
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