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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1262305, member: 18157&quot;]Whoa, whoa, WHOA!!! I&#039;m not taking sides (North vs. South), but that&#039;s not how I remember it...:grandpa:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>20 Dec 1860: </b>South Carolina secedes from the Union, annexes all property within their borders, and requires all Federal Troops to lay down their arms and surrender...so they can be peaceably repatriated in the North.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>26 Dec 1860:</b> Union Major Robert Anderson, commander of a small contingent stationed at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan&#039;s Island &quot;sneaks&quot; into (commandeers) Fort Sumter (now a South Carolina facility...<b>NOT a Union fort</b>) so they would have a more defensible position. <b>That is the first aggressive act of the Civil War. </b>Major Anderson invades the South Carolina facility.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>09 Jan 1861:</b> The South Carolina Army blockades Fort Sumter (not wanting to fire a shot, just waiting for Major Anderson to surrender peaceably so his group can be sent back north). On the 9th, President Buchanan sends a ship (The Star of the West) to resupply Major Anderson with <b>more troops</b> and provisions. Cadets of the Citadel, stationed at Morris Island, fire a warning shot across the bow of the Star of the West. The North claims it was turning to leave and the South says it didn&#039;t, but the net result is that more shots are fired and the ship is hit three (3) times. The ship isn&#039;t seriously damaged and no one injured. The ship returns to New York harbor.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>March 1861: </b>General P. G. T. Beauregard is placed in command of forces at Charleston Harbor. He begins building up shore batteries aimed at the fort at the same time Major Anderson is installing new guns within Fort Sumter.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>April 1861: </b>President Lincoln, refusing to acknowledge South Carolina&#039;s right to secede, notifies South Carolina&#039;s Governor, Francis W. Pickens that he is sending resupply ships with more troops to Fort Sumter and the Governor was to let them through. The reply to Lincoln was &quot;Evacuate Fort Sumter immediately!!&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>12 Apr 1861: </b>After waiting over four (4) months for the Union forces to end their <b>illegal occupation </b>of Fort Sumter and wanting to end the siege before Union reinforcements arrive (further escalating the situation), General Beauregard orders the bombardment of Fort Sumter to commence. The Union Garrison returns fire, but after 34 hours, Major Anderson finally agrees to evacuate the fort. Not one died on either side. However, two (2) Union troops are killed during the Surrender ceremony when a canon misfires. </p><p><br /></p><p>It sounds like a lawful police action and South Carolina showed great patience and restraint under extreme provocation. That&#039;s how I remember it. :thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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