[lentulusgracchus]

Last link courtesy of FReeper rustbucket, in a FReepmail a couple of years ago as we looked at the events leading up to Fort Sumter, and who were the actors hurrying the nation's feet toward war.

Sorry I can't do a better job of linking. I can't comment on the links in the same window, either, I noticed. FR autodetects, but then that requires we louse up our usual punctuation and paragraph divisions and line breaks. Bummer.

[lentulusgracchus]

http://www.nytimes.com/1861/01/24/news/connecticut.html?scp=22&sq=january+24+1861&st=p

http://www.onlinebiographies.info/gov/buckingham-william.html

Note the dates of Lincoln's pre-inaugural visit to Connecticut, and of the NYT article about war preparations in Connecticut.