Still Anderson would have been in Sumter and that was the real cause of tension and was in the end the spark that lit the power keg.

So no unless Anderson moved from Sumter and Buchannan or Lincoln removed the troops from Charleston harbor would war have been avoided. Serious negotiations could have taken place, yet Lincoln chose the path of war.

Wasn't the seceding states offer the chance to return and keep their slaves? They chose not to.

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