Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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So you're claiming that it's not true that the Civil War did not start after the attack on Fort Sumter in April, after which Lincoln put a blockade on southern ports causing four more states, including Virginia, to secede. You're making the fantastical claim that the war started after the January attack on Fort Sumter under James Buchanan. What policies did Buchanan enact to make you come to this conclusion? He didn't enact a blockade of his own, he didn't send any troops to invade the south, and he didn't ask for a declaration of war. He left it for his successor, Lincoln, to handle. So no, the war did not start in January under Buchanan.You are pretending something that simply isn't true and getting upset because I've pointed it out.Again, purposefully misconstruing which event I'm talking about doesn't make you clever.Except that nobody on Earth actually argues that that was the start of the war, you know, because the war didn't start until after the April firing on Fort Sumter when Lincoln initiated the blockade on Southern ports.Wrong.Lincoln was President in April, when the shots that actually started the war happened. The war obviously did not start in January when Buchanan was still in office. Dishonestly attributing what I said to the obvious wrong date doesn't make you clever.
Carolina and then from Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard were ignored. Union attempts to resupply and reinforce the garrison were repulsed on January 9, 1861 when the first shots of the war, fired by cadets from the Citadel, prevented the steamer Star of the West, hired to transport troops and supplies to Fort Sumter, from completing the task.You claimed Lincoln orchestrated Ft. Sumter. Clearly, he did not. Clearly, the Confederates had already fired on Ft. Sumter before Lincoln was president.