Beach Vacations. Many of the world's best beaches enjoy year-round warmth, but if you want sunny skies, you need to plan your travel around the dry seasons. Mexican beaches in Cancun, Puerto Vallarta and Maroma are ideal destinations in February, with temperatures in the 70s and less than an inch of rain in most areas.
As stated, the Civil War didn't begin until April 12, 1861 when Fort Sumter was fired upon. By this time Buchanan was no longer President and Lincoln was. But the question of who was president at the beginnig of the Civil War can not be simply answered by saying Abraham Lincoln. One has to remember that the country had been divided into two nations by April 12th.
The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in 1861. Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America. November 6, 1861. As a U.S. senator from Mississippi, Davis had tried to keep the Union together. When Mississippi seceded from the Union, however, Davis became a Confederate man. After his inauguration as provisional, or temporary, president in February 1861, Davis sent a peace commission to Washington.