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Is it possible to have the Civil War start during Buchanan's tenure as President of the United States?

Now, i do not mean the Star of the West incident, which was more or less at the end of his term, i fully mean during his term, smack dab in the middle of it.

I am actually envisioning the north seceding from the Union....Maybe a longer lasting Bleeding Kansas, with worse effects which could force the North to secede? Northern politicians perhaps are tired of Buchanan being a lapdog of Southern independence, perhaps?

is this at all possible?
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