[SCDogPapa]

Prior to the shelling of Ft. Sumpter, the Union troops were asked to vacate the property of South Carolina. They would not leave,,,so,,, April 12 Confederate troops attack Fort Sumter. April 15 Lincoln issued a call for troops. April 19 Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of the South. -- Major General Patrick Cleburne: ...It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties." SCDogPapa

[WhiskeyPapa]

Prior to the shelling of Ft. Sumpter, the Union troops were asked to vacate the property of South Carolina. They would not leave,,,so,,, April 12 Confederate troops attack Fort Sumter.

Yes, like common thieves.

The property had been ceded by South Carolina to the federal government in 1841. The feds wouldn't start construction until title had been conveyed.

Walt