Ordeal by Fire

About “Ordeal by Fire”

The book "Ordeal by Fire" examines the American Civil War as a defining event in U.S. history, focusing on how the conflict resolved fundamental questions about national sovereignty and the future of slavery in the United States. It discusses the war's role in determining whether the nation would remain a unified union under a sovereign national government or dissolve into a confederation of states, and whether the United States would continue as a major slaveholding nation.