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Were the US troops really in the habit, for years, of getting their food from Mr. McSweeney, a Charleston butcher, under a still-unexpired Federal contract? Or did the Feds ship them C-rats direct from a warehouse in New York? As commandant of a military post, I can only have my troops furnished with fresh beef in the manner prescribed by law, and I am compelled, therefore, with due thanks to his excellency, respectfully to decline his offer. If his suggestion is based upon a right, then I must procure the meat as we have been in the habit of doing for years, under an unexpired contract with Mr. McSweeney, a Charleston butcher, who would, I presume, if permitted, deliver the meat, &c., at this fort or at Fort Johnson, at the usual periods for such delivery, four times in ten days. -- Major Robert Anderson, Commanding Fort Sumter, to D.F. Jamison Charleston, S.C., January 19, 1861

Do you also have the documention between generals of every time a federal soldier took a s*** in South Carolina? lol Things changed when the South seceded. It would've been better for the troops to be supplied by the federal government.