fort sumter

OTL: The Buchanan administration sends supplies and 200 reinforcements to Fort Sumter on board the civilian vessel Star of the West. Upon arriving at Charleston, they find that the navigational lights have all been put out forcing them to wait until morning to approach the fort. As they make...

An offline conversation about the old chestnut of AH ("could the South have won the Civil War?") prompted me to suggest that the most viable strategy for Confederate success would be to be as reasonable as possible. Painting the North as the aggressor is the only way to maintain as much foreign...