“That Fleet was ordered to use it’s entire force to place reinforcements into Sumter.”
Of course you can produce a copy of that order signed by Lincoln. If not, seems like pure speculation or wishful thinking on your part.
“they were expecting marine landing forces”
200 hundred artillerymen unschooled in the use of rifles or bayonets constitutes a “marine landing force”?
You know very well that the orders were signed by Lincoln's officials. Only David Porter's super secret hand written orders were signed by Lincoln.
200 hundred artillerymen unschooled in the use of rifles or bayonets constitutes a “marine landing force”?
As I said, if you read the Confederate messages, they thought there would be thousands of men landing. They also believed there would be more ships than were actually sent. The telegraph messages mention the names of some ships they thought were coming, and some of the troops they thought were coming along with them.
With Lincoln's generals saying a force of 20,000, and with the knowledge of how many men it would take to successfully attack them, it wasn't unreasonable for them to believe a lot more force was coming than actually came.
Nobody expected a token force to just show up and be all show and no fight. They thought it was real, which i'm sure was Lincoln's intent.