[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Link to previous New York Times thread

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[sauropod]

Thanks as always for posting.

[SkyDancer]

So much for the Northern invasion myth.

[KC_Lion]

It's accelerating.

If only there was a way to stop it.

[DiogenesLamp]

Carrying troops and munitions along with five or so actual warships. The ships had orders to use the force at their disposal if the Confederates resisted them.

This was a deliberate provocation and it was seen as an attack by the confederates. The shelling of fort Sumter began an hour after the Harriet Lane was spotted in the channel.