You can accept the hundred dollars I'll give you for your house, or I'll start shooting. Hell, I feel generous. Make it $125.
“You can accept the hundred dollars I’ll give you for your house, or I’ll start shooting. Hell, I feel generous. Make it $125.”
you don’t know what the value was or what would have been paid for the fort. The south had decided to rebel against the union. The fort was on southern land that did not belong to the union.