Created by Tom Horn on 8 Dec 2009, Last Update on 8 Dec 2009

Fort Sumter - 7 Apr 1863

South Carolina adopted an ordinance declaring its secession from the Union shortly after Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, and by February 1861, six more Southern states had adopted similar ordinances of secession

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