Gee, Major Anderson, maybe you and your Yankee Army should have skidaddled out of Ft. Sumter, when you were told to, and there wouldn't have been a NEED TO SHELL.
"Gee, Major Anderson, maybe you and your Yankee Army should have skidaddled out of Ft. Sumter, when you were told to, and there wouldn't have been a NEED TO SHELL."
I take it that you believe your property rights to be conditional upon the whim of your neighbors--i.e., if they have enough firepower, you no longer own your property, they do.
Now why would any dutiful officer abandon his post and allow federal property to be taken by rebels. It also was not the only federal fort under attack.