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[[Image:CMercury.GIF|thumb|150px|left|The Charleston ''Mercury'' newspaper printed this special broadside edition on December 20, 1860, just as news reached the editors that the state government withdrew from the Union.]]
[[Image:CMercury.GIF|thumb|150px|left|The Charleston ''Mercury'' newspaper printed this special broadside edition on December 20, 1860, just as news reached the editors that the state government withdrew from the Union.]]
[[image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.]]
[[image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.]]
On December 20, 1860, the South Carolina government votes to secede from the Union. Within days they begin war preparations, and seize Federal property. By the end of the month Major Robert Anderson removes the force stationed at Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor and places it within the walls of nearby Fort Sumter, as it is considered more defensible. Aware of this, President Buchanan orders reenforcements sent, and USS ''Brooklyn'' is readied for that purpose in Norfolk; she would be replaced days later by General [[Winfield Scott]]'s preference for a non-Naval supply ship, "Star of the West''.
On January 6, 1861, Florida troops take the Federal arsenal at Appalatchicola. The next day, Fort Marion at St. Augustine is seized. On the 9th, the ''Star of the West'' would be fired upon as she neared Charleston, causing her to turn around and head back to Norfolk. That same day public celebrations erupt in Mississippi as the state legislature votes 84-15 to secede.
*January 10, Florida votes 67-2 to secede.
*January 11, Alabama votes 69-31 to secede.
*January 19, Georgia votes 208-89 to secede.
*January 26, Louisiana votes 114-17 to secede.
*February 1, Texas votes 166-7 to secede.
===Ft. Sumter===
===Ft. Sumter===