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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Is it serious, or is it not?
  • Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:56:24 -0700 (PDT)

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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