I suggest that you look at your post 439 and see what it quoted from my post 432. If that still doesn't ring a bell for you, then check my post 391 where I provided quotes from Adams and Meigs (and Anderson as well). I suspect you'll disagree with all three of them. But they were there and involved in the events first hand; you and I were not.
You and I have very different interpretations of the issues and history of the war. That's fine. However, I don't want to get bogged down in an FR version of Groundhog Day providing information that counters the same old arguments and claims with the same people again and again. (I wouldn't be surprised if you felt the same way.) That is one reason I've been off the threads for a while. That is also why I've ignored the bulk of your recent posts to me.
By the way, in my old post to you of long ago, I did provide a second link to Lincoln's March 5th verbal instruction to Scott concerning Fort Pickens.
Be well, BroJoeK. I'm off the threads for a while -- too busy.
Of course, I disagree with any quotes which suggest Lincoln's lawful actions in supplying Federal Forts somehow started Civil War.
War itself -- as opposed to, say, rebellion, insurrection and "domestic violence" -- began with Confederate military assaults on those US Army units.
I also note your analogy in post #393, equating the Confederacy to a rattlesnake, and bringing to mind the original Founders' slogan: "Don't Tread on Me".
But in this particular case, it's an unfortunate analogy, since no rattlesnake belongs in a US Army fortress, and one which invades and strikes a human there -- however "justified" it might or might not be -- will necessarily be killed as a result.
So, a Confederate "rattlesnake" which had no more good sense than your analogy, deserved and got the appropriate response.
rustbucket: "You and I have very different interpretations of the issues and history of the war.
That's fine.
However, I don't want to get bogged down in an FR version of Groundhog Day..."
I'm here to refute any allegations that Deep South secessionists were somehow "victims" of "evil Republicans' " assault on them and their "peculiar institution".
In fact, secessionists planned, provoked, started and declared ("recognized") war long before the "evil Republicans" assaulted anyone anywhere.