re: Civil War Confederate veteran interview

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The treaty your “waiting” for was what the Confederate delegation was there to seek. I feel like I’m arguing with a mentally addled 10 year old.

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While South Carolina was within its rights to do what it may within the territorial confines of South Carolina, it had no right to fire upon Fort Sumter, the sovereign land of the federal government of the United States of America, a parcel of land in which South Carolina had no title.

While you may quibble about the right of South Carolina to secede, the right to secede does not come with the accessory right to fire upon and/or invade and occupy land in which South Carolina had no title.

And South Carolina had no title to Fort Sumter, a fact which you refuse to explicitly acknowledge even while your factual basis tacitly admits it.