[FLT-bird]

Then why didn’t the Charleston batteries fire on the massive invasion armada that Lincoln sent to seize Charleston? They had fired on an invader before - namely, the star of the west. This time they opted to evict the squatters after the squatters turned their guns toward the city of Charleston.

[Bull Snipe]

Wrong, the ships were of little threat. Davis had decided that Sumter would not be resupplied by any means. As I said, it could have been girl scouts in canoes. Davis would have opened fire.