executive Mansion, March 15, 1861.
My dear Sir: Assuming it to be possible to now
provision Fort Sumter, under the circumstances is it wise to attempt it? Please
give me your opinion in writing on this question.
Your obedient
servant,
A. Lincoln.
SOURCES: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 347-8
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