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.
It’s a shame that we often have to rely on newspapers for validation of events. It’s a blessing that we don’t need to rely on lost cause losers for anything except amusement ;’}
Contrary to your prostrations that history does not tell us about Talbot, you can find all the answers that you say do not exist right here:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:505?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
That information is from Lincoln’s collected works.
You can easily find the same in the Official Records of the war.
You are exerting a lot of energy trying to make a difference into a distinction that neither is relevant nor real.