The Demon of Unrest

This is the second book of Erik Larson's I've read and it was again well written. The trigger that started what would become the Civil War was the Confederacy's siege of Fort Sumter by Charleston, South Carolina. Larson does a good job going through what happened leading up to the shelling as the newly seceded states wanted to take control of U.S. forts and armories since they declared their…