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To: Ditto

Its was newly elected Lincoln who ordered a fort restocked on foreign soil.

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6 posted on 10/25/2010 8:32:44 AM PDT by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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To: DwFry

Months before Abraham Lincoln became president, rebels shot at Star of the West, a ship sent by the federal government to re-supply Fort Sumter.


7 posted on 10/25/2010 10:03:30 AM PDT by Michael Zak (is fighting the good fight.)
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To: DwFry
Its was newly elected Lincoln who ordered a fort restocked on foreign soil.

It was his fort. Well, the property of the U.S. government anyway.

16 posted on 10/25/2010 2:02:42 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Hey mo-joe! Here's another one for your collection.)
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