To: cookcounty
“Hostilities began 4 months before Lincoln was sworn in.”
And just what were those hostilities? South Carolina seceding in December, 1860 was not a hostility.
28 posted on
08/05/2010 6:37:08 AM PDT by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: ought-six
"And just what were those hostilities?"
It's in the aritcle...
"President Buchanan had attempted to resupply Fort Sumter by sea, but the Confederates fired upon the ship, the Star of the West, and drove it away."
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