10-day forecast. 1  Weather News. 2  Dangerous surf will threaten some beachgoers this weekend AccuWeather. 3  Big Sur usually canât keep people away.  Several states at risk of hail, floods during stormy Easter weekend AccuWeather.
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught Illinois lawyer, legislator and opponent of slavery, was elected president in November 1860âbut by the time of his inauguration in March 1861, seven Southern states had seceded, and the Civil War began a few weeks later.
It was neither. The war started after seven southern states formally seceded from the Union in December 1860 and January 1861, while Abraham Lincoln was president-elect and the feckless James Buchanan still occupied the White House. At the time, newly elected presidents did not take office until March, four months after being elected.