[Non-Sequitur]

Longstreet was said to have stated” We should have freed the slaves first and then fired on Sumpter”

Longstreet never said that, Michael Shaara did. He put those words in Longstreet's mouth when he wrote his novel, "The Killer Angels".

[mdmathis6]

I had wondered, but I don’t doubt it was the sentiment of many fine southern gentlemen of the time.