Yeah. Three hundred fighting sailors in a couple of unarmed rowboats, in daylight, fighting their way past the shore batteries.
If these "fighting sailors" needed arms they were sadly out of luck. The arms were with the soldiers, the soldiers were in USS Powhatan and that ship went to Florida.
As for the excerpt, so-called, it provides no citation, no link, and does not even identify the speaker. It should at least provide a link to a signed copy of the first edition.
Didn't Lincoln send the Powhatan to Pickens under secret orders? I wonder what his motive was </sarcasm>
That's what the captain's letter says, read it and weep.
If these "fighting sailors" needed arms they were sadly out of luck. The arms were with the soldiers, the soldiers were in USS Powhatan and that ship went to Florida.
The fighting sailors were sent elsewhere. Lincoln probably knew that as soon as word got out that he was going to provision Sumter that the rebels would attack immediately and so he sent the ship elsewhere. Good planning on his part because the rebels attacked before the ship ever arrived.
As for the excerpt, so-called, it provides no citation, no link, and does not even identify the speaker. It should at least provide a link to a signed copy of the first edition.
LOL! So it's a fake, huh? That's the trouble with you neoconfederates, anything that doesn't show the rebels as holy angels is tossed out as some grand conspiracy. You can't accept that people of the South are sinners just as everyone in the world are sinners. That's what causes you to have a screwed up view of history and causes you to hate everyone. And speaking of documentation, where's that signed armistice? Without that signed armistice, none of this matters. You jump my case for showing a letter that doesn't meet some kind of weird standard, but you base your whole argument on an armistice that we haven't even read or seen.
The link is in post #442. I'm sure you'll dismiss it as a grand conspiracy though. lol