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To: longnshort who wrote (88703)	6/9/2012 12:11:49 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

OMG.. that's such a stretch... I guess that you're asserting that S. Carolina was financing the renovations to Ft. Sumter, which was FEDERAL PROPERTY.. In fact, it wasn't under "renovation".. It was STILL under construction.. That means that S. Carolina was attempting to occupy a military fortification built by the Federal Government, for the purpose of housing a Federal military garrison, not a local S. Carolina militia. It was FEDERAL property.. S. Carolina had an obligation to re-imburse the Federal Gov't for it's transfer (not likely).. But they threw the first shells of the war.. Amazingly, no one was killed on either side during that battle.. But during the surrender ceremony, two union soldiers died when a cannon exploded during a 100 cannon salute. And during a civil war, it's hardly appropriate to compare it to an unprovoked invasion of another soveriegn state. The fact is that the Federal Gov't didn't recognize the rebellious southern states as a legitimate country. Hawk