[Homestead] Is it serious, or is it not?

bob ford bobford79 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 1 18:56:24 EDT 2008


I wrote too fast and thought too slow, they committed act of war by entering port.  They had been warned.  My mistake.  But it was intentional provocation.  Still, my mistake ...bobford


--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue at ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue at ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Is it serious, or is it not?
> To: bobford79 at yahoo.com, homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 4:53 PM
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:26 PM, bob ford wrote:
> 
> > Can't let this softball go, James can give better
> explain; But, we  
> > did not fire upon New York because they didn't
> give us extra money.   
> > Lincoln's army fired upon South Carolina, for that
> reason.  And so  
> > it began...bobf
> 
> So Wikipedia has it wrong? Found this there at the
> beginning of the  
> third graph:
> 
> Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate
> forces attacked  
> a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South
> Carolina.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(American)


      



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