[DoodleDawg]

You prove my point. They talk about it as a "resupply effort." They minimize the military nature, and they emphasize the "supply" nature, when in fact it is heavily weighted towards fighting.

And the reason behind that being?

[DiogenesLamp]

And the reason behind that being?

The reason behind it is partisan. They want to support the notion that the Union bears no blame for triggering the war, and it was all those hot head Confederates who attacked Sumter for no reason whatsoever.

Calling it "supply ships" supports this fiction. Calling it what it was, a belligerent War fleet with orders to attack them, calls into question the narrative that the South started it.

They don't want to confuse people with facts that cloud the narrative.