(MY comment) Now, Walt, your 10 second research, which is characteristic of your efforts to get at the truth shown in most of your opinions, is interesting. Would you please give your soruces for this quote.
(Your comment) I didnt make this quote, so I have no idea what you are talking about. I am way too lazy to look it up, but seems like the SC secession was agreed to on December 6, 1860.
Walt
275 posted on 12/19/01 11:29 PM Eastern by WhiskeyPapa
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Well, Walt, looks like it was your comment after all. So, let's have the source, because it will prove that Anderson's improvements were occuring in November, and were stopped by the treaty of December 6, 1860. This makes Anderson aware of the treaty, and his move to Ft. Sumter illegal.
Or do you just not want to make Abner Doubleday a liar, and Lincoln a terrorist.
I stand corrected. I did post this. I'd forgotten this part; it wasn't integral to whatever point I was making. I got it from this URL:
http://meme.essortment.com/civilwarforts_rlfa.htm
Walt
That "quote" is from some girl at a tech school posting on some bulletin board.
Lincoln would be very disappointed in your lack of regard for historical accuracy.
Do us all a favor and read something else other than what you have. Try Mary Boykin Chesnut's memoirs, or Confederate Charleston, by Rosen, or Hearts in Conflict by Anders, or even the War of Rebellion: Official Records. Or try this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/586505/posts.
Every point in that posting is actually factual.
Insofar regarding your contention that the soldiers at Sumter were starving, that was an "urban legend" developed by the newspapers of the time.
It is well documented that the garrison was being provisioned by boat from the Charleston market until shortly before the Union ships arrived.