what are the imprtant facts of the battle fort sumter?

Question

and who was the leader

Answer 1

The villain Lincoln vs. Jeff Davis of course. There on the ground was Confederate Brig. Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard and yankee Maj. Robert Anderson. The most-likely hot-spot in which Lincoln could start his war was Charleston Harbor, where shots had already been fired in anger under the Buchanan administration. But the newly-elected governor of South Carolina, Francis Pickens, saw the danger--that Lincoln might, as an excuse, send a force of U.S. Navy warships to Charleston Harbor supposedly to bring food to Maj Anderson's Union force holed up in Fort Sumter. So Gov Pickens opened negotiations with Maj Anderson, and concluded a deal permitting Anderson to send boats safely to the market in Charleston once a week, where Anderson's men would be allowed to buy whatever victuals they wished.
(This arrangement remained in effect until a day or so before the U.S. Navy warships arrived at Charleston). Maj Anderson wrote privately to friends, saying that he hoped Lincoln would not use Fort Sumter as the excuse to start a war, by sending the U.S. Navy to resupply it.

Before his inauguration, Lincoln sent a secret message to Gen Winfield Scott, the U.S. general-in-chief, asking him to make preparations to relieve the Union forts in the South soon after Lincoln took office. Lincoln knew all along what he was going to do.

President Jefferson Davis sent peace commissioners to Washington to negotiate a treaty with the Lincoln administration. Lincoln refused to meet with them; and he refused to permit Secretary of State Seward to meet with them.

After Lincoln assumed the presidency, his principal generals recommended the immediate evacuation of Maj Anderson's men from Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor--which was now located on foreign soil. To resupply it by force at this point would be a deliberate act-of-war against the C.S.A.

It turned out that Lincoln's postmaster general, Montgomery Blair, had a brother-in law, Gustavus V. Fox, who was a retired Navy-captain and wanted to get back into action. Fox had come up with a plan for resupplying Fort Sumter which would force the Confederates to fire the first shots--under circumstances which would make them take the blame for the war. Lincoln sent Fox down to Fort Sumter to talk with Maj Anderson about the plan; but Anderson wanted no part of it.

Lincoln had Fox pitch the plan to his Cabinet twice. The first time, the majority said that Fox's plan would start a war and were unenthusiastic about it. But the second time, the Cabinet members got Lincoln's pointed message, and capitulated.

Meanwhile, Congress got wind of the plan. Horrified, they called Gen Scott and others to testify about it; Scott and the other witnesses said they wanted no part of the move against the Confederacy in Charleston; and nor did Congress. Congress demanded from Lincoln--as was Congress's right--Fox's report on Maj Anderson's reaction to the plan. Lincoln flatly and unconstitutionally refused to hand it over to them.

Lincoln sent to Secretary Cameron (for transmittal to Secretary Welles) orders in his own handwriting (!) to make the warships Pocahantas and Pawnee and the armed-cutter Harriet Lane ready for sailing, along with the passenger ship Baltic--which would be used as a troop ship, and two ocean-going tugboats to aid the ships in traversing the tricky shallow harbor-entrance at Charleston. This naval force was to transport 500 extra Union-soldiers to reinforce Maj Anderson's approximately-86-man force at Fort Sumter--along with huge quantities of munitions, food, and other supplies.

The Confederacy would, of course, resist this invasion--in the process firing upon the U.S. flag. The unarmed tugs would, of necessity, enter the harbor first, whereupon they would likely be fired upon by the C.S.A., giving Lincoln the best-possible propaganda to feed to the Northern newspapers, which would then rally the North to his "cause."

Lincoln sent orders for the Union naval-force to time its sailing so as to enter Charleston Harbor on 11 or 12 April. Next, Lincoln sent a courier to deliver an ultimatum to Gov Pickens on 8 April, saying that Lincoln intended to resupply Fort Sumter peaceably or by force. There was no mistaking the intent of that message.

Lincoln had set the perfect trap. He had given President Davis just enough time to amass his forces and fire upon the U.S. Navy. But if Davis acquiesced instead, Lincoln need merely begin sending expeditionary forces to recapture all of the former Union-forts in the South now occupied by Confederate forces; sooner or later Davis would have to fight; and the more forts he allowed Lincoln to recapture in the interim, the weaker would be the military position of the C.S.A. As a practical matter, Davis was left with no choice.

Accordingly, the C.S.A., when informed that the U.S. Navy was en route, demanded that Maj Anderson surrender the fort forthwith. Anderson refused; Beauregard's artillery bombarded Fort Sumter into junk (miraculously without loss of life during the bombardment); and Anderson then surrendered with honor intact. The U.S. Navy arrived during the bombardment--but because elements of the force had been delayed for various reasons, did not join in the fight. The Navy was allowed to transport Anderson's men back to the U.S.

Thereafter Lincoln wrote to Fox, pronouncing the mission a great success. Lincoln ended his letter by saying, "You and I both anticipated that the cause of the country would be advanced by making the attempt to provision Fort Sumter, even if it should fail; and it is no small consolation now to feel that our anticipation is justified by the result."

Folks, that ought to be plain enough for anybody to understand.

Now Lincoln had his excuse for a war (assuming that he continued to lie his head off about it--which he did); but there was still no reason for him to believe that Congress would declare war against the South on his say-so.
In fact, there was every indication that they would not. So instead of obeying the Constitution and calling Congress into emergency session and asking them to declare war and to call up an army (which only Congress could do, under the Constitution), Lincoln simply declared war and called up an army himself--by naming the C.S.A.'s defense of its sovereignty in Charleston Harbor an "insurrection" against the U.S. government.



Lincoln did not call Congress into session until several months later--when his war had progressed so far that Congress could not then call it off, but as a practical matter would have to rubberstamp it.

So Lincoln started the War of Northern Aggression virtually single-handed. When I answer I take my answers from the official records not our current history books as we know what they say, don’t we?

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youths will be taught by Northern school teachers; learn from Northern school books THEIR version of the war”. General Patrick Cleburne

God Bless You, Yours and Our Southern People.

Answer 2

What is important about the hostile actions of the people of Charleston, S.C. against a small group of Federal soldiers in an uncompleted fort?
The leader of the Federal Government was Abraham Lincoln. The leader of the soldiers who left Fort Moultrie and went to Fort Sumter was Major Robert Anderson.
The leader of the Confederate Government was Jefferson Davis. The leader of the "militias" positioned around Fort Sumter was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
Unfortunately, Major Robert Anderson ordered a cannon salute to the flag after surrendering the fort. One gun exploded, killing Private Daniel Hough, and another private, Edward Galloway, was wounded and died several days later. They were the first deaths in The War of Southern Arrogance.

*Well southron, is that a new answer? No more cut and paste of the same old answers? I think almost everyone has read your old diatribes against Sherman and denial of slavery as a contributing factor the Civil War. Lincoln did not declare war, he proclaimed a "state of insurrection."*

Answer 3

Battle Fort Sumter



Battle Fort Sumter as "part & whole"


Battle Fort Sumter is as part only if wholes include Battle Fort Sumter.
Battle Fort Sumter is as whole only if parts compose Battle Fort Sumter.
What are the parts of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as whole composed of parts?
What are the wholes of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as part included in wholes?
How are the parts that compose Battle Fort Sumter sensed?
How are the wholes that include Battle Fort Sumter sensed?




Battle Fort Sumter as "equivalence & uniqueness"


Battle Fort Sumter is as equivalence only if differences distinguish Battle Fort Sumter.
Battle Fort Sumter is as uniqueness only if equivalences equate Battle Fort Sumter.
What are the equivalences of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as uniqueness equated by equivalences?
What are the differences of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as equivalence distinguished by differences?
How are the equivalences that equate Battle Fort Sumter sensed?
How are the differences that distinguish Battle Fort Sumter sensed?




Battle Fort Sumter as "limit & link"


Battle Fort Sumter is as link only if limits limit Battle Fort Sumter.
Battle Fort Sumter is as limit only if links link Battle Fort Sumter.
What are the links of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as limit linked by links?
What are the limits of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as link limited by limits?
How are the limits that limit Battle Fort Sumter sensed?
How are the links that link Battle Fort Sumter sensed?




Battle Fort Sumter as "sensation & influence"


Battle Fort Sumter is as sensation only if influences influence Battle Fort Sumter.
Battle Fort Sumter is as influence only if sensations sense Battle Fort Sumter.
What are the sensations of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as influence sensed by sensations?
What are the influences of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as sensation influenced by influences?
How are the sensations that sense Battle Fort Sumter sensed?
How are the influences that influence Battle Fort Sumter sensed?




Battle Fort Sumter as "origin & derivative"


Battle Fort Sumter is as origin only if derivatives inherit Battle Fort Sumter.
Battle Fort Sumter is as derivative only if origins derive Battle Fort Sumter.
What are the origins of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as derivative derived by origins?
What are the derivatives of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as origin inherited by derivatives?
How are the origins that derive Battle Fort Sumter sensed?
How are the derivatives that inherit Battle Fort Sumter sensed?




Battle Fort Sumter as "rule & condition"


Battle Fort Sumter is as rule only if conditions condition Battle Fort Sumter.
Battle Fort Sumter is as condition only if rules rule Battle Fort Sumter.
What are the rules of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as condition ruled by rules?
What are the conditions of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as rule conditoned by conditions?
How are the rules that rule Battle Fort Sumter sensed?
How are the conditions that condition Battle Fort Sumter sensed?




Battle Fort Sumter as "intent & fulfillment"


Battle Fort Sumter is as intent only if fulfillments fulfill Battle Fort Sumter.
Battle Fort Sumter is as fulfillment only if intents intend Battle Fort Sumter.
What are the intents of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as fulfillment intended by intents?
What are the fulfillments of Battle Fort Sumter if Battle Fort Sumter is as intent fulfilled by fulfillments?
How are the intents that intend Battle Fort Sumter sensed?
How are the fulfillments that fulfill Battle Fort Sumter sensed?




Battle Fort Sumter is indiscernible if no difference is between Battle Fort Sumter and nothingness. Battle Fort Sumter is discernible only through the differences between Battle Fort Sumter and nothingness. Battle Fort Sumter is discernible only as "part, whole, equivalence, uniqueness, limit, link, sensation, influence, derivative, origin, condition, rule, intent, and fulfillment" through the differences between Battle Fort Sumter and nothingness. The differences between Battle Fort Sumter and nothingness are the characteristics of Battle Fort Sumter. The characteristics of Battle Fort Sumter are identifiable in every state of Battle Fort Sumter. No two states of Battle Fort Sumter coexist. Battle Fort Sumter transits through different states by changing the order in which the united are in Battle Fort Sumter.