[Heyworth]

They agreed that the fort would not be reinforced during the talks, and the South agreed to supply rations to the troops. The feds agreed that the troops would remain a Moultrie and then ordered Anderson to move

Nonsense. The South Carolina commissioners hadn't met with anybody when Anderson moved, and it's clear from the reaction in Washington that nobody ordered Anderson to move. He did it all on his own, to protect his men by moving them from an indefensible position to a defensible one.

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A nation that does not control their own borders is not a nation.

Well then the CSA was never a nation, since there was never a single day they controlled their own borders.

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He did it all on his own, to protect his men by moving them from an indefensible position to a defensible one.

Yes you are right I miss spoke, it was only Anderson who they were talking to at Moultrie. But, what you wrote in reply you most see is also wrong. Anderson defended Ft. Sumter how long? It was more indefensible than Moultrie. Since I lived their for several years I often looked out across the marsh towards Mount Pleasant S.C. and wondered to myself "why leave here to go there"?