Download or read book The Genesis of the Civil War written by Samuel Wylie Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation: Samuel Crawford, a medical officer working with Major Robert Anderson, unfolds the story of the first shots fired at Fort Sumter--and the events that led to the national struggle between the North and the South in the war for the union of the States. His account was originally published in 1887.