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To: soakncider
When Fort Sumter was attacked, SC had seceded,...

What's that got to do with the price of beans in Boston? Fort Sumter was federal property, built from the seafloor by the states through the federal government, and in an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, not state property.

...but many other states didn’t secede until after Lincoln called for 75000 troops to put down the rebellion.

It was obvious the South wanted war from the start.

56 posted on 01/17/2016 7:55:37 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

I think it shows that many states didn’t secede until after Lincoln made the call for 75000 troops. As for the price of beans in boston, the American Revolution was started at Lexington Green in response to the crown’s positioning of troops to put down the rebellion.


64 posted on 01/17/2016 8:13:36 PM PST by soakncider ("The two enemies of the people are criminals and government"...Thomas Jefferson)
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