[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

[Ditto]

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.

I'm quite sure that the Charleston merchants would have been willing to sell, but show us the documentation that the Confederates were willing to allow provisions to reach the garrison at Sumter.

Give us the source of your "1st person" report or simply admit that, once again, you are just lying.