[Ditto]

If Lincoln had accepted the status quo, there would have been NO WAR. That is a fact.

If it were about the status quo, the Confederates would not have shut down the food supplies for Anderson and his men.

[TexConfederate1861]

A peaceful way to "persuade" the enemy to leave.

[stand watie]

inasmuch as Charleston merchants were PLEASED to sell everything (except munitions) to the fort right up to the opening of the shelling (and PERHAPS, according to 1st person reports, ON that same day!!), you post seems (at best) SILLY.

absent lincoln resupplying/reinforcing the fort, it would have become a "large, self-supporting, prison camp", sitting in the harbor under the heavy guns of the new dixie nation.

would you care for a "do over"????

free dixie,sw