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Diane Beem Wright; Illustrated by Diane Beem Wright; From an idea by John Lockwood Beem
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On April 14, 1861, following the surrender of Fort Sumter,
Washington was "put into the condition of a siege," declared
Abraham Lincoln. Located sixty miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line,
the nation's capital was surrounded by the slave states of Maryland
and Virginia. With no fortifications and only a handful of trained
soldiers, Washington was an ideal target for the Confederacy. The
South echoed with cries of "On to Washington " and Jefferson
Davis's wife sent out cards inviting her friends to a reception at
the White House on May 1.
Lincoln issued an emergency proclamation on April 15, calling for
75,000 troops to suppress the rebellion and protect the capital.
One question now transfixed the nation: whose forces would reach
Washington first-Northern defenders or Southern attackers?
For 12 days, the city's fate hung in the balance. Washington was
entirely isolated from the North-without trains, telegraph, or
mail. Sandbags were stacked around major landmarks, and the
unfinished Capitol was transformed into a barracks, with volunteer
troops camping out in the House and Senate chambers. Meanwhile,
Maryland secessionists blocked the passage of Union reinforcements
trying to reach Washington, and a rumored force of 20,000
Confederate soldiers lay in wait just across the Potomac River.
Drawing on firsthand accounts, The Siege of Washington tells this
story from the perspective of leading officials, residents trapped
inside the city, Confederates plotting to seize it, and Union
troops racing to save it, capturing with brilliance and immediacy
the precarious first days of the Civil War.
On April 14, 1860, the day Fort Sumter fell to Confederate forces,
Washington, D.C.-surrounded by slave states and minimally
defended-was ripe for invasion. In The Siege of Washington, John
and Charles Lockwood offer a heart-pounding, minute-by-minute
account of the first twelve days of the Civil War, when the fate of
the Union hung in the balance. The fall of Washington would have
been a disaster: it would have crippled the federal government,
left the remaining Northern states in disarray, and almost
certainly triggered the secession of Maryland. Indeed, it would
likely have ended the fight to preserve the Union before it had
begun in earnest. On April 15, Lincoln quickly issued an emergency
proclamation calling upon the Northern states to send 75,000 troops
to Washington. The North, suddenly galvanized by the attack on
Sumter, responded enthusiastically. Yet one crucial question
gripped Washington, and the nation at large-who would get to the
capital first, Northern defenders or Southern attackers? Drawing
from rarely seen primary documents, this compelling history places
the reader on the scene with immediacy, brilliantly capturing the
precarious first days of America's Civil War.
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Diane Beem Wright; Illustrated by Diane Beem Wright; From an idea by John Lockwood Beem
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