Wrong. It was occupied by workers and craftsmen who were in the process of building it when it was *SEIZED* by Federal forces in an act of naked aggression after the Confederates had been told for months that the fort would be turned over to them.
This was after the cannons in fort Moultrie had been burned without warning.
First hostilities of the war were instituted by Anderson, not the confederates.
Oh barf. Anderson commanded all the federal facilities in the Charleston area - Charleston Armory, Castle Pinkney, Fort Moultrie, and Fort Sumter. He didn't "SIEZE" anything; he moved his troops from one part of his command to another. And he did so in the face of real threats being made against his men by people in South Carolina.
This was after the cannons in fort Moultrie had been burned without warning.
Not the canons, which being iron would not burn, but the carriages. And he was supposed to leave them untouched so the South Carolina rebels could use them against him?
First hostilities of the war were instituted by Anderson, not the confederates.
So if you burn your house down am I to take that as an act of hostility towards me?
You can spin it anyway you want Lampster. You’ve been slapped with the truth here so many times and yet you never learn.
Lincoln was resupplying a federal installation. The South opened fire. It was occupied by federal troops. Your revisionism is just historically untrue, it’s insulting.
And it’s a smokescreen for the fact of why the South went to war: To preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor.