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To: Gianni
Where they got their food did not change until SC learned that the fleet had sailed.

It was our property and Lincoln was not obliged by any agreement that the Buchanan Administration made verbally (or even non-verbally if it involves the welfare of troops).

395 posted on 03/03/2004 10:24:05 AM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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To: #3Fan
or even non-verbally if it involves the welfare of troops

It has been adequately demonstrated that it did not involve welfare of troops.

I see you're already backing into the "it was ours and we could do as we wished" version of this argument, seeing as how the 'starving garrison at Sumter' argument made previously discharges the last few twiches of its death spiral.

398 posted on 03/03/2004 10:37:42 AM PST by Gianni (Please, use the word "reality" in quotes at all times.)
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