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Lincoln’s First Crisis concerns five of the most consequential months in American history: December 1860 through April 1861. When Abraham Lincoln swore his oath as president, the United States was disintegrating. Seven states had seceded, and as many as eight seemed poised to join them, depending upon how the new president handled the secession crisis and its flashpoint: Fort Sumter in South Carolina, the heart of the rebellion. The fate of the republic hung in the balance. The Sumter crisis has been hotly debated and deeply researched for more than 150 years. In this thoughtful reassessment, William Bruce Johnson combines thorough research and the latest historiography with a litigator’s methodical analysis and a storyteller’s eye for meaningful detail. Shortly after taking office, Lincoln decided upon a plan to avoid war with the seceded states while keeping his inaugural promise to maintain a Union military presence in the South. Because he chose not to reveal his plan to anyone, rumors soon spread that he was simply afraid to act. One source of such rumors was Lincoln’s secretary of state, William Henry Seward. Resentful that Lincoln had deprived him of the Republican nomination and convinced that Lincoln lacked the political sophistication necessary to deal with the secession crisis, Seward decided to negotiate with the Confederacy on his own and in secret. General Winfield Scott, meanwhile, the Union’s most senior military officer, had for a decade depended upon Seward for political advice, and now considered himself under orders from Seward, not the president. Johnson traces how Seward and Scott sabotaged Lincoln’s plan. From this account, from his examination of various personalities (such as that of Fort Sumter’s commander, Major Robert Anderson), and from his granular research into aspects of the Order of Battle in Charleston, Johnson has here constructed a new narrative of this crucial period, culminating in a new theory of how and why the Civil War began as it did, and how and why, if the new president’s orders had been properly carried out by Seward and Scott, it might have been averted.

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Reading about the U.S. being on the brink in 1861 during the crisis of secession while living through the U.S. in 2020 made this book for me a page-turner. When you’re in the moment that we are in today, it feels unprecedented, but when you read Lincoln’s First Crisis you realize that the country was in just as bad - if not worse - shape back then. This is made even more difficult for Lincoln as he has just stepped into office and he must quickly become the leader of a country and of a complex war effort. The personal approach that the writer Johnson takes to explaining the obstacles that Lincoln faced is refreshing and makes the read especially interesting. It also has all the fun flair of a Civil War book.
The book itself is terrific. It moves at a breakneck pace that well conveys just how fragile things were during the interregnum following the 1860 election and right after Lincoln took office. The integration of the author's analysis within the description of events allows him to convey a point of view without requiring the reader to take a break from the action.I think there is a fair amount of new, original-souce material in the book--new even to Lincoln devotees. There is also a lot of detail about the tides and sandbars affecting (and protecting) Charleston's harbor. The presentation, though, is not dry and scientific. Rather, the natural phenomena virtually become characters in the drama of Fort Sumter in their own right.

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