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why Lincoln refused to remove Union troops from Fort Sumter.


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Lincoln thought of the Southern secession as "artificial." When Jefferson Davis sent a group of commissioners to Washington to negotiate for the transfer of Fort Sumter to South Carolina, they were promptly rebuffed. ... He would send no arms, troops, or ammunition — unless, of course, South Carolina attacked.