No Greater Calamity for the Country: North-South Conflict, Secession,and the Onset of Civil War (Leon Reed - CH) photograph It tends to overshadow many

It tends to overshadow many of the other interesting and important stories that have taken place in Gettysburg and the vicinity

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No Greater Calamity for the Country: North-South Conflict, Secession,and the Onset of Civil War (Leon Reed - CH) photograph It tends to overshadow manyby Leon Reed No Greater Calamity for the Country: North South Conflict, Secession and the Onset of the Civil War The year long crisis that started with the first summer months of the 1860 presidential campaign and ended in the first major combat at Manassas is one of the most consequential 12 months in American history. Over that eventful year, one of the two major political parties shattered (and lost the next six presidential elections the longest