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No. Ft. Sumpter wasn't garrisoned. It was a new garrison under construction at the time of secession.

4ConservativeJustices has already given you an excerpt of the agreement at secession.

Demanding the surrender of Ft. Sumpter wasn't an act of war unless our recent UK's farmer shooting burglars was an act of uninitiated aggression.

Nobody was uninformed about the Star of the West's intentions or direction. That's a red herring.

The fact remains that firing upon Ft. Sumter and the firing on the Star of the West were absolutely necessary for Charleston to remain an uncontested harbor. The fact remains that the retention of troops in Ft. Sumter and its attempted provisioning were *intended* to be the unignorable provocations that they were.

In 1861, the Union forces had decided upon a violent way, they were simply going to take actions that forced the other guy to fire first. Much like the way a small annoying loud-mouthed pipsqueak in the local gang threatens to gang bang your mother.

I'm not sure if it can be made any clearer than that.

1) "4ConservativeJustices has already given you an excerpt of the agreement at secession."

And what agreement would that be ?

2) The Star of the West is a red herring ?

You can't be serious.

3) You are correct that Sumter was not properly garrisoned. However engineer troops and ordnance officers did perform duty there in 1859 & 60.

4) "The fact remains that firing upon Ft. Sumter and the firing on the Star of the West were absolutely necessary for Charleston to remain an uncontested harbor. The fact remains that the retention of troops in Ft. Sumter and its attempted provisioning were *intended* to be the unignorable provocations that they were."

Dude, your self delusions are almost comical but hey, at least you finally got the name of Fort Moultrie right. I guess there is hope for everyone. I often wonder if desk-jockey Super Confederates ever see their similarity with Arab apologists. It's never your fault, yours is the only true way and yeah you did bad things but the other guy (insert Yankees or evil infidels) made you do it.

Truly amazing.