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New York City did not support Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election and its businesses had many ties with the South, yet its denizens turned out in overflow numbers to hear Union Major Robert Anderson speak in Union Square. Fort Sumter’s 33-star flag flies from George Washington’s statue. (Photography (C) New-York Historical Society)