[DiogenesLamp]

Warships were necessary because on the last resupply effort to fort Sumter by the Star of the West. She was fired on by a Confederate battery at the entrance to Charleston harbor.

They were necessary to do what? What is it that Warships were going to do?

I am listening with rapt attention here.

[Bull Snipe]

You know that they were authorized to use force if the resupply mission was resisted by Confederate authorities.