Fort Sumner: Cause Of The Civil War

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Fort Sumner was attacked around 1861. Abraham Lincoln, Robert Anderson, Governor Francis Pickens, and Jefferson Davis are the main people involved in the event. It happened in Charleston Harbor which is a part of South Carolina.
On February 1861, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, had joined South Carolina in seceding. Also on February 4th, delegates from each state started a new government and a new nation, called Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis was elected president on the new nation. The south took control of most forts within their states. Robert Anderson, the commander of Fort Sumter said that their fort was low on supplies and the confederates wanted them to surrender. Lincoln sent Governor Francis
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