[colonel mosby]

That’s all well and good.

But neither you nor non-sequiter answered the question. Why was the Lincoln government so intent on manning the Fort AFTER they were asked to leave ?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I'm asking you to leave your house and hand it over to me.

Why haven't you left? Same reason. It was property of the United States government.

[Non-Sequitur]

Why was the Lincoln government so intent on manning the Fort AFTER they were asked to leave ?

Because it was their fort.