[Non-Sequitur]

The fact is that the Fort Sumter garrison was a hostile army exercising hostile and threatening intent against the city of Charleston.

What hostile and threatening gestures did the Fort Sumter garrison make?

[GOPcapitalist]

What hostile and threatening gestures did the Fort Sumter garrison make?

Anderson made the first hostile move of the war by spiking the guns at Moultrie and mobilizing his garrison in the mothballed Fort Sumter, all of it without any orders to do so. That was on December 26th.