Understandable since it didn't belong to South Carolina.
The bombardment that ensued was to regain the island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor. There were no casualties during the bombardment and the only when the Union soldiers agreed to leave, that a cannon exploded prematurely when firing a salute to signal their evacuation.
So the fact that nobody was killed makes a day long bombardment that reduced the fort to rubble all OK?
High tariffs had nothing to do with the South wanting to leave the union according to Northern Historians.
According to Southern leaders of the period, based on their speeches and writings.
The South did not launch a large and bloody rebellion. They wanted to leave and were attacked to prevent them from going.
Sumter attacked Charleston? Who knew?
Ft. Sumter “didn’t belong to South Carolina”.
An island in the mouth of Charleston Harbor? So then, in your understanding, none of South Carolina belonged to South Carolina but to the Union and the Feds by extension.
The individual states were grouped by a mutual covenant into the United States and it was believed by most that they were freely bound and could depart should they wish. They asked to have the garrison returned.
Recently, Fort Monroe in Hampton Rhoads, Virginia was returned to the State of Virginia. I take it that you consider that a gift from the feds?
As much as New York belonged to the British.