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PRELIMINARY EVENTS
          Kansas Troubles

     NOVEMBER - 1860
          Nov. 10 - Gov. Wm. H. Gist calls for a convention

     DECEMBER - 1860
          Dec. 20 Secession Convention - Columbia, SC, Barnwell, SC and Charleston, SC
               The Ordinance of Secession
          Dec. 20 Castle Pinckney Reconnaissance by Federal Troops
          Dec. 26 Transfer of Federal Troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter
               Charleston Mercury Account
               A Peep at Fort Moultrie
          Dec. 26 The Occupation of Castle Pinckney - The O.R. lists this as occurring on the 27th.
          Dec. 30 Seizure of the Charleston Arsenal
               Charleston Mercury Account
          Occupation of Morris Island

 

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