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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 5790887" data-attributes="member: 65823">Makes sense being between Ohio and Illinois.Yep. Just as Lincoln wanted. South Carolina had dissolved the connection with the government of the United States, seceded.  Who owned the forts in the harbor and of the military post was a question. Commissioners were sent to Washington to settle that question and other questions growing out of the new relation which South Carolina bore to the Union.  An understanding had been established between the authorities in Washington and the members of Congress from South Carolina, that the forts would not be attacked, or seized as an act of war, until proper negotiations for their cession to the State had been made and had failed, provided that they were not reinforced, and their military status should remain as it was at the time of this understanding.</blockquote>