Sumter's Location: Angers the South
- After South Carolina’s secession and Anderson’s move to Sumter, many fortifications previously occupied by the Union were seized by the Confederacy
- Buchanan ignored claims made by South Carolina that secession includes
taking possession of Sumter and its surrounding forts
- Buchanan’s
administration kept Anderson in Sumter, coming as an insult to South
Carolina
- For the south, Fort Sumter in Federal hands
threatened the people of South Carolina
- It stood for everything the Confederacy hated;
the Union
- To allow the Union to control their most important fort in the Charleston Harbor would be a disgrace
- The fact that Sumter was right outside their doorstep did not help
calm charged emotions.