[BrexitBen]

The garrison at Fort Sumter was there to enforce Lincoln’s insane tariff. It was given every opportunity to abandon the fort. Lincoln wanted the Southerners to fire the first shot, much as FDR wanted the Japanese to initiate WW2 at Pearl Harbor.

NEA history books have successfully indoctrinated the masses.

The only casualty at Fort Sumter was a horse. When the garrison finally surrendered, the South Carolina brigade saluted the northerners as they departed the harbor.

[Bull Snipe]

Fort Sumter was not garrisoned. The 110 troops there moved there from Fort Moultrie in Dec 1860. They moved because Anderson did not think he could defend Moultrie if attacked.
The U.S. Army did not involve itself with tariff collection.
The tariff in effect at the time Lincoln was elected until Apr 12 1861 was the Tariff law of 1857. It was not “Lincoln’s insane tariff”

[DoodleDawg]

The garrison at Fort Sumter was there to enforce Lincoln’s insane tariff. It was given every opportunity to abandon the fort. Lincoln wanted the Southerners to fire the first shot, much as FDR wanted the Japanese to initiate WW2 at Pearl Harbor.

The ever popular "We wuz so stoopid we done fell right into Linkum's trap" defense.

[rockrr]

The garrison at Fort Sumter was there to enforce Lincoln’s insane tariff.

Not true.