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What if instead of baiting Southern forces into firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, he orders Federal forces to reclaim it by force?
The problem with Fort Sumter is that the fort was not yet complete on April 12, 1861 and fewer than half of the cannons that should have been available were in place, due to military downsizing by President James Buchanan.
This would not have idea and would have been a larger loss of lives to the Union side.
You know sometimes it makes you wonder if he truly was that incompetent as a President or if he tried to favor the South.
What if instead of baiting Southern forces into firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, he orders Federal forces to reclaim it by force?
What if instead of baiting Southern forces into firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, he orders Federal forces to reclaim it by force?
Not quite. It was most definitely ordered by the Rebel government to prevent the re-supply or reinforcement of the Fort, ultimately resulting in Beauregard bombarding it into submission. This was after Lincoln informed Davis that he was sending supply ships to the Fort.My school, the Citadel, prides itself on being the first to fire on Fort Sumter and the Star of the West, the supply ship for the fort, so it was more that a bunch of hot-headed teenagers decided to fire on the fort and that got the war rolling and not the the President baiting a bunch of rebels to attack the government.
What if instead of baiting Southern forces into firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, he orders Federal forces to reclaim it by force?
Was he acting as an incompetent president to push through his personal agenda of making the South stronger? He definitely put his face to the insult -"doughface", (a Northerner with Southern sympathies)You know sometimes it makes you wonder if he truly was that incompetent as a President or if he tried to favor the South.
Whenever a fight breaks out, people often look down on the one who threw the first punch. Said person can say the other person was insulting them but it doesn't change the fact that they made it a physical fight. If Lincoln launches an attack, the South gains a lot more sympathy.