"While Secretary of Defense he purposly shipped all the war materials that he could take out of northern Arsenals and armories to the southern states knowing that the south would need them in case the north responded to the actions of the south. That would have been in oppisition to the oath of office that he was under when he did it."

Floyd faced those charges and they were thrown out in criminal court in Washington D.C. on March 7, 1861. The guns Floyd sent were all part of scheduled upgrades and the finishing of contracts to build the fort on Ship Island, MS, and at Galveston, Texas, in other words he had to due to his oath of office. Also the records show that arms sent to the South in 1860 were actually less than their normal qouta, much less than was sent to the Northern states, who by the way, were also mobilizing their state militias.

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David Upton