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From Fort Sumter to Poland: The Question of War Guilt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Louis Morton
Louis Morton
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Dartmouth College
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It is now more than a hundred years since the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, precipitating four years of terrible conflict. Since then, the question of who was responsible for the opening salvo of the Civil War has continued to occupy the attention of publicists, polemicists, politicians, and scholars.

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Review Articles
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World Politics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , January 1962 , pp. 386 - 392
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1962

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