That’s certainly the version that apologists for Lincoln like best.
Pelham: “That’s certainly the version that apologists for Lincoln like best.”
No, it’s simply an accurate summary of historical facts.
The fact is that Lincoln promised secessionists in his first inaugural that they could not have civil war unless they themselves started it.
Well, propagandists in the Confederacy took Lincoln’s words themselves as a “declaration of war”, and called for military assault on Fort Sumter.
Jefferson Davis immediately ordered preparations for military actions which were unequivocally acts of war.