> the occupants of Ft. Sumter were federal troops who were given time to stand down and leave the premises, which they didn't.
Yeah, and the Aztlaners have given you time to leave the US and return to Europe (presumably...). So when they attack you, will it be your fault?
> It was Lincoln's army that crossed the Potomac to wage an attack on Virginia's citizens that was considered the act of aggression most Southerners associate with the WoNA.
Yes, and a very great many Japanese were cheesed off when the Dolittle raid brought to them the war that they started.
The War Of Southern Aggression started when a sovereign nation attacked the United States military on US military property. Remember, the secession was a done deal by that point... South Carolina and other had already split, with no military action by the United States. The CSA committed an act of war upon the US, and the US retaliated.
Your weakness is showing, OBB. The fact that I was BORN in NC and have 12 generations tied to this state's soil and the right to defend it is quite a bit different than that of a soldier's temporary station of his own making.
"The CSA committed an act of war upon the US, and the US retaliated."
South Carolina acted as the situation dictated. Andersen's move from Moutrie to Sumter was seen as a reinforcement of Sumter, in direct violation of ongoing discussions between Washington and the South Carolina represenatives who were conferring on the matter of the forts' dispensation to the CSA. One condition for the safety of those forts was that they remain exactly as they were, without reinforcement nor improvement, which Andersen chose to do under darkness. When asked to return his troops to Moutrie, Andersen's refusal was taken as an act of aggression, so the governor of SC gave the orders and decided to take Sumter. If Sumter was truthfully the trigger, there should never have been the invasion of federal troops into Virginia. Andersen's stay at Sumter was his own choice. His choice led to arms.
"blam" don't you ever get tired of most FReepers believing you to be either a TROLL or an IDIOT???
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