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title: "What was President Lincoln's first response to the situation at Fort Sumter?"  
description: "What was President Lincoln's first response to the situation at Fort Sumter?"  
author: "Gray  park"  
published: 2018-04-24  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41597/what-was-president-lincoln-s-first-response-to-the-situation-at-fort-sumter  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What was President Lincoln's first response to the situation at Fort Sumter?

What was [President Lincoln](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42035/what-invention-provided-the-most-rapid-communication-between-civil-war-officers-and-president-lincoln)'s first [response](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23276/how-can-i-tell-if-request-response-is-available-in-application_error) to the situation at [Fort Sumter](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40817/why-was-fort-sumter-s-location-important)?\
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