President Abraham Lincoln sends a message to South Carolina Governor Francis W. Pickens stating that he will attempt to send supplies to Fort Sumter: …an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with provisions only, and that if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition will be…
Virginia’s secession convention continues. The pro-Union vote of yesterday has solved little. Confederate sympathizers agitate for Virginia’s attachment to the southern Confederacy. Much sentiment leans toward Virginia joining the Confederacy if the North and the South prove unable to reconcile (an impossibility, by this point). Jeremiah B. Jeter (illustration) is the pastor of Grace Street…
In Virginia, the time for a decision arrives. In the morning, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln meets with Virginia Unionist John Baldwin and discusses the fate of the state. The content of the conversation between the two men is disputed. Some argue that Lincoln offered to evacuate Fort Sumter if Virginia agreed to stay in the…