[IronJack]

It was not US property. Fort Sumter was within the sovereign state of South Carolina. That was the very core of the issue.

[FredZarguna]

Wrong. It was a fortress built by the American people, and administered by the Federal government. South Carolina had no authority under the Constitution to raise a standing army; only a militia. South Carolina specifically recognized it had no such power when it ratified the Constitution, so the fort could not belong to South Carolina.

Traitors to the United States of America shot first. Your non-answer answers to the inadequacy of your understanding and the fundamental untruthfulness of the Lost Causers about their cause.

[rockrr]

the land that Sumter was built upon was deeded in perpetuity to the federal government. The federal government financed the construction of the fortifications and manned it as their prerogative and right. The insurrectionists had no legitimate business going anywhere near the fort and firing upon it was a clear act of war.