Before. It was Lincoln's decision to resupply the fort. When he informed the South that he was resupplying it, they attacked Fort Sumter!
Abraham Lincoln was elected in November 1860, and inaugurated in March 1861. The bombardment of Fort Sumter occurred April 12, 1861.
Because the Confederates shelled it into surrender before Lincoln was able to run supplies to the island-fort.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas all seceded before the Battle of Fort Sumter. there you go! :]
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first of the American Civil War. It was fought in South Carolina, where it lies before Charleston Harbor.
Abraham Lincoln had trained himself to work as a lawyer.
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Led by South Carolina, seven Southern states seceded from the union after Lincoln was elected and before he took office.
He was elected!!! And unfortunately this caused the war itself.
The first big battle that followed Fort Sumter was the First Battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, in July 1861. There had been a minor battle before Bull Run, at Big Bethel Church, also in Virginia. This was not much of a battle but the first Confederates killed in the war died at Big Bethel, and it got a tremendous amount of attention in the newspapers.
Abraham Lincoln was dead in 1960, since had been shot in the head about 100 years before that. John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960.
Lincoln had a successful law practice in Springfield, IL when he was elected president.
Lincoln was living in Springfield, Illinois before he was elected to be the next US President. In Washington DC, Lincoln lived at the White House.