![Lincoln’s Rhetorical Fireworks](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u6Vxt_ub0MBIApIG4UWezBXhgkrmCA5RlFJHVo8rNT_AVknPxws912_9MSlmpFeZEeg9STJQDhOs-urMaC77I21WR610zeQI_41u1OQCVd6rIPuGon3kkHYGvPBHT6BSTkNGTtvfv-korvwDiRC4izPJtHAxAJeTBbXHN4b-i4-FDcLHKA9wViRtv1=s0-d)
When the Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln responded within hours, ordering a naval blockade of Southern ports and calling for 75,000 volunteers to “maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.”
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