The caning of Charles Sumner : honor, idealism, and the origins of the Civil War / Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
Hoffer, Williamjames.
2010
E434.8 .H64 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The caning of Charles Sumner : honor, idealism, and the origins of the Civil War / Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
Author Hoffer, Williamjames.
ISBN 9780801894695 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801894697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801894688 (alk. paper)
0801894689 (alk. paper)
Imprint Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description 152 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Call Number E434.8 .H64 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7/11
Summary Charles Sumner was seated at his Senate desk on May 22, 1856, when Democratic Congressman Preston S. Brooks approached, pulled out a walking stick, and struck him on the head. Brooks continued to beat the stunned Sumner, forcing him to the ground and repeatedly striking him even as the cane shattered. He then pursued the bloodied, staggering Republican senator up the Senate aisle until Sumner collapsed. Colleagues of the two intervened only after Brooks appeared intent on beating the unconscious Sumner, perhaps, to death. The caning on the Senate floor embodied just how wide the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth had become, and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Witness to history (Baltimore, Md.)
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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A machine that would go of itself?
Immediate aftermath
A long, winding road
Honor, idealism, and inevitability.

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