Team of Rivals Chapters 12-14: “Lincoln faced a tangled situation ahead”

Hello, readers!

This week’s chapters took us from Lincoln’s inauguration to the first shots of the war at Ft. Sumter to the conflict’s first major battle at Bull Run. We were treated to glimpses of just how complex this all was for the president, as well as the ways normal life went on amidst the turmoil.

Though I won’t go into it in detail here, the Ft…