With the 150th anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter fast approaches let us all stop and take a moment to consider exactly what sparked that momentous event.
It has been said many times that those that do not remember history are condemned to repeat it. But what happens to those who remember and perpetuate a fraudulent “history”? The standard explanation of the beginnings of the War Between the States is a good example of such fraudulent “history”. Most Americans who write or speak on the subject, even those who should know better, continue to perpetuate a fraud that was committed in 1861. They explain that the federal troops that occupied Fort Sumter in early 1861 after South Carolina had seceded “needed to be supplied with food and provisions”, that President Lincoln had decided to “resupply” the garrison and it is then the Confederacy wantonly opened fire on the Fort .
They never mention the fact that the “Fox expedition” (the forces sent to “resupply” and “provision” Sumter) included the following:
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