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> The South said "Fuck this, we're out" and seceded from the Union, then the North attacked it.

The Confederacy (or the states that would become it) were taking over Federal military forts. The first shots fired were by Confederate troops on Fort Sumter in 1861. While the northern states (what remained of the Union) went to war, the Confederacy was not without blame in providing them with an immediate cause (Fort Sumter) to rally around.



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