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They could always claim that they didn't want a war. They just wanted the right to secede. Any war would have to be declared by the Union - though in practice, Lincoln could not do this without appearing to recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.

That is why the Civil War had no official beginning, and no official end.

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