1861: Creation of the Confederacy
- The Crittenden Compromise
- Formation of the Confederate States of America
- The Confederacy selects its first president
- Lincoln signals determination to preserve the Union
- The controversy over Fort Sumter
- Lincoln attempts to send supplies
- Southern forces attack Fort Sumter
- Undecided states join the Confederacy
- The Union fights to keep other border states
- Lincoln silences Maryland...
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