[cowboyway]

Meanwhile, Anderson was in a beseiged fort, all communication cut off by surrounding forces.

The agreement between Washington and SC occurred on 12/9/1860. Sumter was attacked on 4/12/1861. Anderson knew for 5 months that he wasn't supposed to reinforce Sumter. Why he suddenly chose to reinforce is obvious. To carry out Lincoln's desire for hostilities.

Please explain how this problem would be more efficiently handled without violence over an international than a state boundary.

It's called a 'treaty'.

Of course, I doubt the north would have honored any treaty struck with the Confederacy. The American Indians can tell you all about that.......

[Sherman Logan]

You seem to have this odd idea that Anderson was making decisions about reinforcements. He wasn't. The only decision he could make was whether to surrender or not.

Any decisions about whether to reinforce Sumter were made in DC by the President and Cabinet. All Anderson could do was wait to be informed about decisions made by others.

Of course, I doubt the north would have honored any treaty struck with the Confederacy. The American Indians can tell you all about that.......

I've noticed this oddity about southern apologists before. The North is held responsible for all the violated treaties before 1861, even though the Union was disproportionately controlled by southerners during this period, and that the most egregious violations of treaties occurred in the South, at southern insistence and to placate southerners, and under Jackson, a slaveowner himself.

Jackson even refused to obey a Supreme Court ruling that the treaties with the Cherokee must be obeyed.

Yet somehow southern apologists consider the South completely innocent of the broken treaties, with the assumption that the Confederacy would have always honored any treaties it made.

This is remarkably similar to modern liberals. When American liberals did wrong things in the past, it is defined as America's fault, not the fault of liberals. Thus liberals (or southerners) have never done anything wrong in our entire history.

[Non-Sequitur]

The agreement between Washington and SC occurred on 12/9/1860.

Which was violated by the South when they seized Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinkney, and the Charleston armory later that same month.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The agreement between Washington and SC occurred on 12/9/1860. Sumter was attacked on 4/12/1861. Anderson knew for 5 months that he wasn't supposed to reinforce Sumter.

Buell's orders to Anderson, dated Dec. 11, 1860, gave him the authority to move his forces to whatever of the forts he deemed most proper.