protecting the coast
Union was stationed there
South wanted it since it was in the south
Sent a ship to ask for reinforcements
And the South take it hostage
Union property- humanity action to get them supplies
provoking military intervention

Storming of Fort Sumter

The issue of divided Union came to a head over the matter of federal forts in the South, the most important fort was Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor and all the choices presented to Lincoln of Fort Sumter were all bad. If no supplies were forthcoming, its commander would have to surrender without firing a shot. So Lincoln notified the South Carolinians that an expedition would be set to provision the fort though not reinforce it but the South still saw it as reinforcement. And the South took the fort without spilling any blood. But the assault on Fort Sumter provoked the North to a fighting , Lincoln was now waging war.

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