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5. Having a background that made him fully aware of both the northern and southern cause along with graduating from West Point and serving in the Black Hawk, Seminole, and War with Mexico prepared this man for the task of handling the situation at Fort Sumter in CharlestonHarborA G.T. Beauregard B.Ulysses S. GraniC. Robert Anderson George C. McClellan
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