they were in a hurry to fight this war....they were winning this war...but ultimately lost it...
this fort and other USA forts in CSA territories might have taken months...no years to pass into CSA hands...
I have no ax to grind...I live up North(hopefully not for the rest of life)but my forebears were stomping grapes in some bucolic little southern european village or harvesting potatoes in some equally bucolic northern european village....I am a states rights constitutional type...but I do believe the South made some fundamental political and military blunders and the attack on Sumter was the first and probably the worst....
I don’t disagree with that; in fact, one of the most hardcore secessionists, Robert Toombs, tried to convince Davis that firing upon Ft. Sumter was foolish and fatal. I’m just pointing out that an effort was indeed made beforehand to resolve the matter peacefully.