Navy that April could count only 42 commissioned warships, spread from Boston to Pensacola and stationed overseas. On April 15, two days after the fall of Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for 75,000 new soldiers to suppress the rebelling states. Army, mustering around 16,000 men, was not large enough and was too spread out across the states and territories to mount a campaign against Richmond.
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