Why did the crisis at Fort Sumter pose a challenge for President Lincoln?

He wanted to avoid violence and war and yet could not accept secession.

The fort was strategically placed so that it was impossible to take control of it by force.

The Confederacy allowed supply ships into the fort but still demanded its surrender.

"august 19th (1864)- how they quarreled and wrangled among themselves- alabama and mississippi, all were loud for joe johnston, save and except the long-haired, one-armed hero, who cried at the top of his voice: "oh! you all want to be kept in trenches and to go on retreating, eh? " "oh, if we had had a leader, such as stonewall (jackson), this war would have been over long ago! what we want is a leader! " shouted a (wounded man). they were awfully smashed-up, objects of misery, wounded, maimed, diseased. i was really upset, and came home ill. this kind of thing unnerves me quite." mary chestnut, a diary from dixie this entry from the diary of mary chestnut illustrates a) the lack of medical technology possessed by the confederacy. b) the military superiority of southern troops in the civil war. c) the effects of the emancipation proclamation on the southern economy and society. d) the loss of morale and confidence by the confederacy towards the end of the civil war.

The first human skeleton found in oklahoma is estimated to be 9,000 years old. based on this age, which dates the skeleton to about 7,000 bce, the skeleton is most likely from the

Why did true colony of roanoke fail?