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Seward's First Folly Helped Hasten Conflict
President-elect Lincoln faces a tangle of secession and diplomacy as Seward backs a secret plan to arm Fort Sumter and Pickens. Lincoln weighs relief, while Wade Davis and others clash on strategy. The fraught maneuvers unfold amid Cabinet nerves and naval charting in New York and Washington.
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