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Great content on events leading to the Civil War...
Item # 705947
January 11, 1861
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Jan. 11, 1861
* Start of the Civil War ?
* Star of the West attacked
From just 4 months before the outbreak of the Civil War, it is not surprising that much content within related to the brewing troubles.
Some column heads include: "Highly Important From Charleston" "The Firing Into the Star of the West" "She is Driven Out of the Harbor" "Patriotic Letter From Maj. Anderson" "War Upon the United States" "Seizure of Forts In Louisiana" "Departure of State Troops" "What Congress Might & Should Do to Save the Union" "The Hour & the Man" "The Proof-Slavery Rebellion - Secession Is War" "Speech of Jefferson Davis" "The Evacuation of Fort Moultrie" "The Bitterness of Defeated Traitors" and even more.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed so it folds out to one large sheet, some loss at the bottom right of the first leaf does not affect any content, otherwise minor foxing & margin wear, good condition.
AI notes: The attack on the Star of the West on January 9, 1861, marked one of the earliest hostile actions leading up to the American Civil War and reflected the deepening sectional crisis over secession. The civilian steamship, hired by the U.S. government to resupply the isolated Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, was fired upon by South Carolina militia as it entered the harbor, forcing it to retreat without delivering reinforcements or supplies. Although no lives were lost, the incident demonstrated that Southern states were willing to use military force to assert control over federal property within their borders and effectively challenged federal authority. Coming just weeks after South Carolina’s secession, the firing on the Star of the West heightened tensions in Washington and across the nation, signaling that compromise was rapidly giving way to conflict. Historians often view this event as a prelude to the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, showing that the political disputes over secession were escalating into armed confrontation, making civil war increasingly inevitable.
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