Your feelings are the same as mine. From the Federal military correspondence the officers were very war minded and they were preparing to kill fellow Americans and destroy government property... and getting very inventive at it.

Here's Foster again...

"December 19, 1860

There is another thing which I propose to do, and of which I write to you in season, so that if you disapprove it you can have time to forbid it. I propose to connect a powerful Daniels battery with the magazine at Fort Sumter, by means of wires stretched across nuder water from Fort Sumter to Fort Moultrie, and to blow up Fort Sumter if it is taken by an armed force, and after Lieutenant Snyder and my men have time to escape from it.

I propose,also to use the same battery to fire small mines around Fort Moultrie, and to explode a large mine placed in the sand hills. All of these last preparations may seem to be unnecessary, and I hope they may prove to be so in the end, but there are very strong probabilities that they may be required, and, at any rate, I regard a complete state of preparations as the best safeguard against attack.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
FOSTER
Captain, Engineers."

I have no simular documentation written by the South Carolina militia.