I don't feel hurt. Maybe that wasn't the truth?
Funny how you want to blame Lincoln for something Davis started with his bombardment of Sumter.
Bombardment of Sumter would not have happened without warships showing up with orders to impose Lincoln's will. No warships, no war.
You mean surrender, don't you?
Anderson was pretty adamant that he wasn't going to "surrender". He used the word "evacuate".
Because Davis wanted one.
If this is true, why did he send a telegraph telling Beauregard not to attack the fort if Anderson would just name a time at which he would evacuate?
Everything was settling down before Lincoln stuck his big warships into the mix.
Bombardment of Sumter would not have happened without warships showing up with orders to impose Lincoln’s will.
Davis was not going to allow Sumter to be resupplied under any circumstance. Sumter was going to be without food in a few days and Anderson would have to surrender the post. It would not have made any difference how provisions were going to be provided to Sumter, Davis would not let that happen. If it meant reducing Sumter by force first, he was not going to allow provisioning by any means by anyone.
No bombardment, no war. Anderson was pretty adamant that he wasn't going to "surrender". He used the word "evacuate".
When you're starved into submission that's a surrender.
If this is true, why did he send a telegraph telling Beauregard not to attack the fort if Anderson would just name a time at which he would evacuate?
You mean 'surrender' don't you?