hmm, wonder why he started making his case before a jury before the 'crime/act'?
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d0813900))
I am still confused by the lack of a reply to the steady request for orders or assistance from the Charleston Arsenal in December. The acting commander of the arsenal tried to get anything he could from any official in DC but recieved nothing. He had to surrender it to the South Carolina Militia. I wonder if the lack of 'interest' in that issue may have been part of his reason the resign from the US Army and join the Confederate Army.
Pam