

The Situation and the Players
Jefferson Davis
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President-elect Abraham Lincoln
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Edmund Ruffin: Fireater
PGT Beauregard: Confederate Brevet Major
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Major Robert Anderson, U.S. Army
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Sumter
Resupply
January 1861: The Star of the West
April 1861: Gustavus Fox and the Harriet Lane
Bombing
April 12, 1861
Surrender
April 13, 1861
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Sumter Today
Ramifications