Lincoln and Ft. Sumter

[Laurie Verge]

Thanks for all the input everyone. Let me know if you think of anything else.

Quite a while ago, I seem to remember reading (from a source that I can't remember) that Confederate authorities and the city of Charleston had agreed to allow Major Anderson to send men into the city to buy food and provisions - therefore, the supply ships that the Union sent were actually not a necessity. Does anyone know anything about this? If true, that would seem to put the onus on Lincoln for sending the ships.