After the surrender of Fort Sumter, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers. He requested that each of them serve for three months.
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Fort Sumter was a fort back when Lincoln was president.
The major results were: - the outbreak of the Civil War; - Lincoln call for 75,000 volunteers to fight the rebellion. - The Secession of Virginia, Arkansas, tennessee and North Carolina.
Virginia seceded almost immediately after Lincoln's call for troops.
Lincoln sent a ship to Fort Sumter in 1861 because the troops needed food and supplies.
After coming under Confederate artillery fire, the Union garrison was evacuated, and Lincoln retaliated by calling for 75,000 volunteers for the Union army.