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The first Confederate soldier to die in battle was Private Henry L. Wyatt of the 1st North Carolina Volunteers, later the 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, at the Battle of Big Bethel on June 10, 1861.

April 12 comes before June 10. The Union sent their troops and warships to Charleston in early April. Besides, the battle of Big Bethel took place in Virginia, which you may or may not have noticed was part of the Confederacy by this time.

Union troops invaded, and that is what caused the fight.

Two Union soldier deaths at Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861.

The Confederates did not kill those soldiers. Error on the part of the Union forces in Sumter is what killed those men. They were killed accidentally when their symbolic cannon firing (after all hostile action had ceased) went badly wrong.

But I can see why you would want to grasp at straws to justify the Union invading.

DiogenesLamp: "April 12 comes before June 10. The Union sent their troops and warships to Charleston in early April."

Which would have accomplished their resupply mission without war had Jefferson Davis wanted that.

DiogenesLamp: "Besides, the battle of Big Bethel took place in Virginia, which you may or may not have noticed was part of the Confederacy by this time. "

And which had formally declared war on the United States, May 6, 1861.

DiogenesLamp: "The Confederates did not kill those soldiers.
Error on the part of the Union forces in Sumter is what killed those men."

But Confederates did rain death & destruction on Fort Sumter, forcing its surrender which lead to those Union deaths.

DiogenesLamp: "But I can see why you would want to grasp at straws to justify the Union invading."

But there was no Union "invasion" of any Confederate state until after the Confederacy formally declared war, May 6, 1861.