[DoodleDawg]

Actually, it's the complete opposite - the South didn't need to invade the North, didn't want to fight a war at all, they just wanted to be left alone.

And yet they went and started the war. Silly of them given all that.

It wasn't a civil war, it was a succession.

Secession, or succession, is not a war. A rebellion is.

In order to 'win', the South needed to do merely nothing.

Including not bombarding the ever-living crap out of a Federal fort. Yet they chose to do so. Does that mean the South chose to 'lose'?

War and invasion was his only option.

Davis started the war. Lincoln fought the war he forced on him.

[DiogenesLamp]

Your technique reduces to repeat, and go in circles.

"Noise", thought I.