So it looks like you can’t produce that “Lincoln” telegram you were so sure about.
I can recall several other of your assertions from other threads that you were sure about, but proved wrong.
I am sure I can speak for others here when I ask that you respect the posters and readers by being factual.
This coming from someone who is unashamedly factual about nothing, as I've demonstrated over and over again.
PeaRidge post #210: "That failing, you must have some confusion.....on April 8, 1861 President Lincoln sent a dispatch by courier to South Carolina Governor Pickens advising that he would re-supply the fort."
As somebody claiming to have suuuuuuuuch respect for fine details of history, you might at least get dates right.
The order from the Secretary of War Cameron to Capt. Talbot was dated April 6, not April 8.
History does not tell us how Talbot received his orders (i.e., via telegraph?), or where he was at the time of receipt (in Charleston, SC?).
The New York Times report of April 6 on this, while quite explicit in some matters, is quite vague on Talbot's whereabouts.
But history does tell us Talbot delivered his message on April 8 and General Beauregard so notified the Confederate government in Montgomery, Alabama.