Last link courtesy of FReeper rustbucket, in a FReepmail a couple of years ago as we looked at the events leading up to Fort Sumter, and who were the actors hurrying the nation's feet toward war.
Sorry I can't do a better job of linking. I can't comment on the links in the same window, either, I noticed. FR autodetects, but then that requires we louse up our usual punctuation and paragraph divisions and line breaks. Bummer.