Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, meets with his Cabinet to discuss holding Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
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Subsequent Events:
References:
Maury Klein, Days of Defiance:
subsequent events:
4/12/1861
authority:
references:
Maury Klein, Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession and the Coming of the Civil War, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 332.
, Secession and the Coming of the Civil War, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 332.
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