Till We Have Built Jerusalem

Some historians suggest the Civil War might be said to begin, not with the bombardment of Fort Sumter, but with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, opening the Territory to settlement and creating the most violent place in America: "Bleeding Kansas." Proslavery Missourians confronted settlers who demanded the Territory enter the Union as a Free State, precipitating a conflict that ended only with the close of the Civil War. Into this struggle comes Ezra Middleton, a newspaper correspondent from slave-holding Missouri, who arrives at the Free-State stronghold of Lawrence on the day it is sacked by bushwhackers.

Author: Alan E. Craven

Publisher: Milford House Press

Publication Date: Apr 28, 2019

Number of Pages: 186 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1620061864

ISBN-13: 9781620061862