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As the influential characters are introduced and the stage is being set, it's intriguing to consider how the Fort Sumter series of events would have played out had there not been so many government officials in Washington who whose loyalties were to the South instead of the Union in the months leading up to the first shots of the war. SC would have still seceded, but the war possibly would have started elsewhere.
— Sep 18, 2017 05:46PM
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Buchanan's lame-duck Presidency before Lincoln's inauguration is a fascinating period. Even after Sec of War Floyd's resignation, the efforts to deal with the Ft Sumter situation was hampered by Buchanan's own reluctance to offend either side by taking decisive action and by Southern sympathies within the administration. Maj Anderson was put in an unfair position in ultimately deciding how events progressed.
— Sep 24, 2017 08:24AM
