[PeaRidge]

Major Anderson threatened Governor Pickens and the harbor in January of 1861. You can find the info. in the OR.

[DiogenesLamp]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled House drops Confederate Flag ban for veterans cemeteries, PeaRidge wrote: Major Anderson threatened Governor Pickens and the harbor in January of 1861. You can find the info. in the OR.

I'm not following. What does "OR" mean in this context?

Also, that's not the example of which I was thinking. There is some verbiage in one of the Newspapers editorials about using the guns of Ft. Sumter to destroy Charleston so as to prevent them using that port for trade.

I think it is just further down in the text of some of the Newspaper excerpts you have already posted. I remember stumbling on to it by finding some of those newspaper articles and reading through them further.

I guess a lot of these people arguing on behalf of the Union side aren't really aware of the fact that there were calls in the Union to use that fort to fire upon the City of Charleston to prevent trade.

And people wonder why they didn't want to put up with Union guns overlooking their harbor.

[BroJoeK]

PeaRidge: "Major Anderson threatened Governor Pickens and the harbor in January of 1861.
You can find the info. in the OR."

Governor Pickens began threatening, demanding surrender and seizing Federal forts around Charleston in December, 1860.
You can find that info. in any history book.