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I've listed a few sources. I'm sure by time you are done with deconstructing them, they will be worthless and not worth the trouble of putting them together.

But no quotes from Lincoln saying he knew that resupplying Sumter would lead to war. We know what Browning thought. We know what Hurlbut thought. We know what Nicolay and Hay and Petigru thought. How about what Lincoln thought?

I didn't see this post.

Well, of course his secretaries and his friend just made that up in a vacuum. He never told them what he was thinking Do you actually believe that?

And when Lamon told him Pickens' and Petigru's answers, he just dismissed it. And the memo... you got me on that on a technicality... reinforce versus resupply, so you escaped that bullet.

So, you believe Lincoln thought he could sail in the harbor and maintain the status quo regardless of what anyone told him about the reality in the South?

Okay... if that is how you perceive him. To me, your Lincoln is very stupid. Oh, well. As long as you are happy with him.

And will that warrant a "so's your mother" crack about Jefferson Davis. Oh, boy!