To: DiogenesLamp
Davis should have given that some thought before he ordered Beauregard to take Fort Sumter by force before it could be resupplied.
To: Bull Snipe
Lincoln sent the war fleet. That is what precipitated the war. Lincolns cabinet told him it would, but he did it anyway. He would rather have a war than him and his New York backers losing money and power.
140 posted on
11/20/2018 10:51:43 AM PST by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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