[WhiskeyPapa]

It was surrounded by the confederate state of South Carolina.

South Carolina has never been out of the Union for even ten seconds.

South Carolina has ceded all rights to Fort Sumter to the feds. The feds wouldn't agree to even build the fort until title was conveyed.

You know that.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

South Carolina has never been out of the Union for even ten seconds.

You can keep shouting that till your voice goes hoarse, Walt, but it will never change the de facto reality that South Carolina seceded.