[Pelham]

‘I’ll say it again, those soldiers were killed & wounded by Confederate actions as certainly as if Confederates had pulled the triggers.’

Well you can say that but it doesn’t make it so. It happened when those troops were firing a salute. It wasn’t in defending the fort.

[DiogenesLamp]

Well you can say that but it doesn’t make it so. It happened when those troops were firing a salute. It wasn’t in defending the fort.

No doubt if one of them died from being run over by a wagon, BroJoeK would regard that as the fault of the confederates too.

But to make it clear, none of those soldiers were killed in an engagement with the enemy. They were killed in an unfortunate accident.

[BroJoeK]

Pelham: "It happened when those troops were firing a salute. It wasn’t in defending the fort."

Again, two points:

1. That no Union troops were killed directly by Confederate fire is no thanks to Confederate intentions, who certainly intended to harm as many Union troops as necessary to force surrender.
   Indeed, Union Major Anderson told Beauregard's representatives that he must surrender soon anyway, due to lack of food, but Confederates were not willing to wait.
   They insisted that Anderson's surrender be to an act of military force by them, not Fort Sumter's exhausted food supplies.

2. That two died and six were wounded during Anderson's surrender ceremony highlights the fact that those were caused by Confederate military actions -- acts of war -- against the United States Army.