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Tuesday April 16, 1861

How Will Border States React? In the immediate aftermath of Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for volunteers the nation watches and ponders what the border slave states will do? What will Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee and particularly Virginia do? North Carolina show her intentions today by seizing  Forts Caswell and Johnston.