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Who started the us civil war?

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The US Civil War was started by attack on Federal Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor in South Carolina. Sumter had to surrender & President Lincoln took his first steps to aid Fort Sumter & to prepare to defend Federal forts and other Federal property located in the "South".

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