[stand watie]

i don't know the answer to your question. neither probably can ANY person answer your question fully,without having been there at the time.

all i know is what was reported by one of the faculty members of The Citadel (who, unlike you & i) was there on the scene.

i see NO reason that he had to lie about WHAT supplies were delivered & WHEN they were delivered to the fort. (frankly, his displeasure, at the rather "soft manner" that the persons in the fort were treated by the Charleston merchants & the city "fathers", comes through in his account.)

as for 33+ hours of bombardment, the bombardment such as it was, occurred over that period but evidently was neither continuous or great in numbers of rounds fired. (i therefore suspect that it wasn't much of a battle, when compared to an artillery bombardment of today or one of the sort at later battles of the WBTS.)

free dixie,sw

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

i see NO reason that he had to lie about WHAT supplies were delivered & WHEN they were delivered to the fort

Really? I can easily see why he'd lie in order to justify southern aggression against the fort. Of course, I can see why you'd lie, too.

as for 33+ hours of bombardment, the bombardment such as it was, occurred over that period but evidently was neither continuous or great in numbers of rounds fired.

Over 4000 rounds of artillery were fired, 2500 from Ft. Moultrie alone.