Confederate officials ordered the Union commander of Fort Sumter to surrender when they learned that
A) Union soldiers had fired upon Confederates.
B) the Union was plotting to overthrow the Confederate president.
C) Union forces were approaching from the Atlantic.
D) President Lincoln had ordered that supplies be sent to the fort.
E) South Carolina had decided to secede from the Union.
D
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