Congress and the Civil War

352 pp. "Story of the forty-year parliamentary battle on Capitol Hill which culminated in Civil War between the States. These fiery debates between North and South began in 1819 with the bitter struggle over the admission of Missouri to the Union." Subjects include: Daniel Webster debating with Robert Hayne on the nature of the Union; John C. Calhoun; Henry Clay; Martin Van Buren; Jefferson Davis; Ned Baker; Thaddeus Stevens; America Vespucci; John Randolph; Rose O'Neill Greenhow, plying her espionage trade on behalf of the Confederacy under the very dome of the Capitol and bringing about the Union disaster of Bull Run; the impeachment and trial of President Andrew Johnson. Illustrated with many contemporary prints and photographs.