re: Civil War Confederate veteran interview

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The people in and around Charleston knew that resupply was impossible. Lincoln did not.

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He was advised that it would be seen as an act of war even if he didn’t know the status of the harbor’s defenses (which I’m ignorant of his knowledge with regards to).

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The maneuver from Moultrie to Sumter was decided locally by Anderson. It was a move from an indefensible position to a more defensible position. The US owned both positions.

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Right, moving to a more defensive position has implications when the US Secretary of State is ensuring the South that the forts would be vacated.

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Beauregard fired hundreds of rounds without provocation upon US soldiers on US land for about one-and-a-half-days. It was a miracle that no US soldier was killed in the shelling.

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Informing them of those plans to bombard probably had something to do with that I’d imagine. *edit: “without provocation”?, what of Lincoln’s cabinet informing him the sent provisions would be just that?

Anyway, it stands that the US moved to a position that anticipated conflict in SC’s harbor and sent provisions understanding that it would also be seen as an act of war, while the South had peace negotiators up north.