The Demon of Unrest PDF
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a
tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern
extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one
state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery
fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came
to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.
Master
storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months
between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a
period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and
craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself
wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I
have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive
them.”
At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major
Robert Anderson, Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic
to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and
bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity;
and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over
both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the
middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his
duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately
to avert a war that he fears is inevitable—one that will eventually kill
750,000 Americans.
Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave
ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror
story that captures the forces that led America to the brink—a dark
reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late.
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