CWT Book Review: Civil War’s First Blood

The Civil War’s First Blood—Missouri 1854-1861 by James Denny and John Bradbury, Missouri Life, 2007, 138 pages, $29.95. When Rebel forces led by P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in 1861, the Civil War began. Right? Wrong. Try 1854 in Missouri. As James Denny and John Bradbury point out in The Civil War’s First …

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