[DoodleDawg]

I feel as if it is a waste of my time to look up and post the salient communications for your benefit, because I know from past history you will simply pretend I didn't do it, and then you will ask this same question, or variation thereof, again and again.

And yet you do while ignoring all the evidence that had the South allowed Fort Sumter to be resupplied then reinforcements would not have been landed.

[DiogenesLamp]

And yet you do while ignoring all the evidence that had the South allowed Fort Sumter to be resupplied then reinforcements would not have been landed.

One more day and Anderson would have left. Why would they want to throw that away? Gone would be the Federal threat to their trade, all they needed was one more day.

And then the warships showed up, confirming their worst fears that Lincoln had no intention of giving the fort up peaceably, despite Seward's assurances to them.

Lie to them, mislead them, then send troops and gunboats with orders to attack them?