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===Secession of the Southern states===
===Secession of the Southern states===
[[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:CSAmap.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Confederate States of America, as printed in Harper's Weekly, December 21, 1861.]]
[[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 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''.