Yeah the way the fort halted all shipping into and out of Charleston was really an act of agg...oh wait.
You actually might be right about New Orleans having most of the cotton trade but I don’t know
No, you don't. Yet that doesn't stop you from denying everything.
Fort Sumter did control the entrance to Charleston Harbor.
Do you think they would have allowed shipping to pass unmolested once Lincoln invaded?
Of course not.
I sort of like it when people make nonsensical arguments. It is easier to point out their errors tho sometimes it gets to the point of being stupid.
I still have little doubt that Charleston Harbor was the most important one in the South for various reasons. As I said earlier, no country would allow a hostile nation to control their most important harbor.
New Orleans and Norfolk both had serious weaknesses. The Mississippi was controlled for a great deal of it’s length by the North. It was vulnerable. Norfolk because of it’s location was also vulnerable. Charleston held out to the very last.
It was the South’s most important harbor.