Greatest Fear of the Founding Fathers for America: The Horrors of Civil War

When the founding fathers created a new republic and constitution, they believed that they had performed a minor miracle in fashioning the best and most lasting government on earth. However, before the end of their lives, the founding fathers saw that they had failed in creating a lasting government by correctly seeing that sectional strife was leading the nation to civil war, which became a horrible reality in April 1861. This book is about the disillusionment of the founding fathers and their prophetic view that the Civil War was inevitable.