Virginia seceded from the Union after the Fort Sumter attack because they believed the attack violated the Constitution. They felt slavery was protected by the Constitution and the state. As a slave holding state, they believed an attack on state sovereignty by a federal force was an assault on the freedom of property and political representation.
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The state decided to vote Confederate. And Robert E. Lee decided to go with his state.
Virginia was an important part of the Confederacy. It, however, did not secede from the Union until the attack on Federal Fort Sumter. When US President Lincoln responded to the fall of Fort Sumter, by calling up 75,000 new troops, Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861.
There was no actual declaration of war, because Lincoln did not recognise the Confederacy.
But he appealed for volunteer-troops, which was effectively the same thing, and started planning the naval blockade.
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Virginia seceded almost immediately after Lincoln's call for troops.
After the surrender of Fort Sumter in April of 1861, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months and end the Southern rebellion. After Lincoln's announcement, the southern slave states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina joined the Confederacy.
The Battle of Fort Sumter ws April 12-13 1861
Yes, the Civil War started on the attack on Fort Sumter. The first major battle of the war was the Battle of Bull Run.