The secession crisis in South Carolina in 1863 was a major event that occurred in the spring of 1863 in South Carolina, in which the state legislature threatened to withdraw from the Union due to fears of growing abolitionist influence in the United States Congress. A "Free State of South Carolina" was established at Spartanburg and a group of men marched on Columbia from there to protect the secessionists in case of violence. In response, Stephen Douglas dispatched the United States Army under Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant to quash the rebellion, resulting in the Battle of Spartanburg. The crisis is, along with the Pennsylvania Crisis two years prior, regarded as the closest the United States has ever come to civil war.
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