"Digging All Night and Fighting All Day": The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865 (Paul Brueske - CWC) kid Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on

Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party

and eventually secured a foothold beyond the Dunker Church in the West Woods

that both sides had been wrong

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"Digging All Night and Fighting All Day": The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865 (Paul Brueske - CWC) kid Preston Brooks's frenzied assault onby Paul Brueske The first in depth study of the crucial but underexplored Civil War siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama. The bloody two week siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama (March 26April 8, 1865) was one of the final battles of the Civil War. Despite its importance and fascinating history, surprisingly little has been written about it. Many considered the fort as the key to holding the important seaport of Mobile, which surrendered to Maj. Gen. Edward R.