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Governors of Indiana, Ohio, Maine, and Pennsylvania confer with President about military status of militia. Baltimore Sun, 9 April 1861

Considering that a month before the confederate congress had voted to raise an army of 100,000 men - five or six times the size of the U.S. army at the time - then it's clear that the aggressive acts happened in Montgomery and not Washington.

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