The story about starvation was propaganda released by the Lincoln administration and served up by the press in New York and Philadelphia.
President Davis, General Beauregard, and Gov. Pickens were courageous to resist the power of the Federal government that was in the process of fighting its way into their home harbor.
The garrison had every right to stay at Sumter, so the offer was irrelevant. I wouldn’t so much say courageous as I would provocative and confrontational.
davis wanted confrontation and he got it.
How nice of them. Give me your house and I'll provide you free transportation to the state of your choice. Deal?
The story about starvation was propaganda released by the Lincoln administration and served up by the press in New York and Philadelphia.
It is fact backed up by the OR and other sources. The garrison was running out of provisions and without resupply would have had to surrender within a matter of days.
President Davis, General Beauregard, and Gov. Pickens were courageous to resist the power of the Federal government that was in the process of fighting its way into their home harbor.
Davis, Beauregard, and Pickens got the war they wanted. Too bad for you they so badly mismanaged it.