To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Continued from March 21 (reply #37).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3942611/posts#37
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury
5 posted on
03/24/2021 5:55:36 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
It nice to see that government emissaries were not any more useful in 1861 than they are today.
To: Homer_J_Simpson; DiogenesLamp
Lincoln's emissaries to Charleston all reported that SC Gov. Pickens and CSA Gen. Beauregard would not allow even boatloads of resupplies to reach Maj. Anderson in Fort Sumter.
Any such attempt would result in war, they said.
So, contrary to what DiogenesLamp has been telling us, it had nothing to do with the question of "resupply" versus "reinforcement", but rather any effort to support Fort Sumter was casus belli in Confederate eyes.
Of course, such threats by Confederates were, in themselves, acts of war against the United States.
8 posted on
03/25/2021 4:54:00 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
((a little historical perspective...) )
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from March 24 (reply #5).
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury
17 posted on
03/28/2021 7:22:52 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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