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To: lakecumberlandvet
Isn’t Ft. Sumter located in Charleston, SC? Major Robert Anderson, commander of the Union forces occupying Ft. Sumter, refused repeated calls to abandon the fort. The Union’s blockade of Charleston harbor was effectively the first shot fired.

The Fort was in an inlet to the river, and was built by the Federal Government. There was not even an island there until it was built.

There was no blockade before the war. lol

122 posted on 01/20/2014 3:03:37 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

There was no blockade before the war. lol
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Then why were the Union troops there? Playing tiddlywinks?


129 posted on 01/20/2014 3:14:47 PM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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