[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

If the Southern leadership had been smart, they would have just waited the garrison at Ft. Sumter out. Though the fort may have been Federal property, by seceding and forming what was essentially a new nation, the territorial waters AROUND the fort - especially as it sat in Charleston harbour - belonged to the Confederacy, or as they would have considered it, to South Carolina. All the South needed to do was blockade the fort and tell the North that "while we won't fire on you without provocation, we also won't allow you to send ships into our territorial waters." That way, the North would either havehad to surrender it eventually, or else provide the casus belli that sparked the war. The war started as much due to Davis' incontinence as anything else - the North played him and provoked him, and he fell fo it.

[Non-Sequitur]

If the Southern leadership had been smart, they would have just waited the garrison at Ft. Sumter out.

But they weren't smart, were they? Robert Toombs said that firing on Sumter was suicide. He was right.

[Turret Gunner A20]

... the North played him and provoked him, and he fell fo it. So you admit then tht the North was the ones who cause the war to start when iut did. Thanks.

[Non-Sequitur]

the North played him and provoked him, and he fell fo it.

Ah yes, the ever popular "We were do dumb we fell right into Lincoln's trap defense." There was no provocation to it. Davis was as eager, if not more eager for war than people accuse Lincoln of being.