Less than Ten Days to go.
“The General is reported to have stated that Maj. ANDERSON had now but two alternatives — to evacuate Fort Sumpter within forty-eight hours, or suffer a bombardment”
And. Here. We. Go.
All natural lands of the South has been peacefully relinquished.
This island, however, was artificial - literally built by the U.S. Navy, which was unwilling to relinquish under threat. Had it been left alone, secession would have completed peacefully (others looking for a fight via other pretexts aside). Being positioned as it is, may have been abandoned in time. Alas, belligerence moved first, and 🇺🇸 is fiercely protective of its own soil. Such goes my working theory that the Civil War was, fundamentally, just the retention of a small island; everything else about CWI was opportunism.
April 12. And so it begins.