[Bubba Ho-Tep]

So simply sending supplies to a fort that was deeded property of the United States was provocation enough to launch a bombardment that lasted 34 hours and fired 3000 shells at the fort, fortunately killing no one despite the Confederates’ best efforts? Can you imagine if presidents today acted as irrationally as Jefferson Davis?

[speciallybland]

Jefferson Davis isn’t the one held up on the pedestal.

[speciallybland]

So simply sending supplies to a fort that was deeded property of the United States

The state of South Carolina thought it theirs.