When have you ever cited "documentery" (sic) proof that can actually be confirmed by anyone? You always end up resorting to some book that no one can find or some document that no one's ever mentioned before. (and I'm still waiting for some explanation why Jefferson Davis never mentions this alleged personal letter from Lincoln, in either his memoir or his speech to the CSA congress).
the Charleston Mercury of the period reported what supplies were being delivered to the fort, including the LUXURY GOODS, like fresh bread/fruit/oysters,lace & chocolate for example.
Last week you said it was a professor at the Citadel who wrote about this.
So, it's your position that when Anderson said his men were running out of supplies and would have to leave the fort soon, he was lying? When Capt. Foster wrote in his journal that the men were down to half rations of bread, he was lying? When he says that the men inside the fort were picking through the last of the damaged rice, trying to get the broken glass out of it so they could eat it, they were ignoring the oysters and chocolate that had been brought out to them that day? Are you saying that Abner Doubleday was lying when he wrote:
Many unfavorable comments having been made, even in the Southern States, more particularly in Kentucky, in relation to Governor Pickens’s treatment of us, he relaxed his severity, and on the 21st sent us over some fresh beef and vegetables ; as if we would consent to be fed by the charity of South Carolina. Anderson showed a good deal of proper spirit on this occasion. He declined to receive the provisions, but notified the governor that, if we were not interfered with, we would purchase our own supplies in Charleston market. The governor consented to this; but nothing came of it. There seemed to be a combination among the market-men not to sell us any food.
did you think that ONLY the faculty member mentioned that supplies were being sold to the fort (did you think he was the only southerner in SC who thought that supplying NON-combat essentials to the fort was "trading with the enemy"???)
are you REALLY that clueLESS or do you hope that your readers are that DUMB???
btw,it's always FUNNY to me that NOBODY on your side can find my books/sources WHEN those sources make the DYs look cruel,dishonest, stupid, filled with HATE and/or IGNORANT. otoh, they CAN find those SAME sources to "prove" that "you (addressing me) don't know what you're talking about". (that problem is called WILLFUL IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY!)
one of my "all-time favorites" of that sort of DISHONESTY was the former member-in-goodstanding of the coven, who stated that here was NO BOOK titled YACHTS AGAINST SUBS, but DID post excerpts from TWO reviews of THE BOOK. (it's REALLY hard for a book reviewer to review something that never was written, don't you think??)
i further note that you didn't bother to say whether YOU are ignorant enough to believe that "The OR" is "a racist diatribe" and/or "rebel propaganda", as your "former leader of the unionist FR faction" said on another thread. (i note that NONE of the "DY coven" members disagreed with his comment.) otoh, perhaps you think the "OR" is also a "figment of your (my)imagination" too.
free dixie,sw