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Grant and the American Military Tradition The War Lords of Washington WITH PRANK ARETAS HASKELL Battle of Gettysburg WITH WILLIAM CATTON Two Roads to Sumter EDITED BY BRUCE CATTON American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places American Heritage Book of the Revolution American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War First Year of American Heritage TWO ROADS TO SUMTER by William and Bruce Catton McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON TWO ROADS TO SUMTER Copyright © 1963 by William and Bruce Catton Printed in the United States of America.
The value of the great inland waterway became more apparent every year, and at midcentury, when a national crisis touched off rumbles of disunion in the angry I,IKE A CROUCHING LION [03 Gulf states, the most famous Kentuckian sounded a warning that brought the old Spanish problem up to date. "My life upon it," said Henry Clay, speaking to the Senate before crowded galleries, "that the vast population iwiiich has already concentrated and will concentrate on the headwaters and the tributaries of the Mississippi will never give their consent that the mouth of that river shall be held subject to the power of any foreign State or community whatever.
In Wilkinson County Sam Davis built his last home, a spacious, one-and-a-half-story frame house with plastered hall and wide veranda, embroidered by orchard and flower garden. For its day this was solid comfort by any standard, and in frontier Missis sippi it was tantamount to luxury, but Sam Davis's prosperity had reached its peak. His career as cotton planter had begun rela tively late. Fifty-six when he moved to Wilkinson County, the elder Davis worked his fields and his handful of slaves for thirteen years and watched eminence and wealth come to more fortunate neighbors who had started with no more than he.