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April 6, 1861

On this date 150 years ago, State Department Clerk Robert S. Chew carried a message to South Carolina Governor Pickens, regarding Fort Sumter: the Federal action will be one of provisioning rather than reinforcing on the condition that there be no resistance to or interference with the supply efforts.

Lincoln directed Seward to reverse former orders concerning the USS Powhatan but it was too late to do so.

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