You can go on with your “Lincoln was re enforcing Ft. Sumter t precipitate an attack yada yada''. Doesn't change a thing Reb. The CSA batteries opened fire and the ball was opened and your side got the war it wanted and lost it. It'll never be 1861 again. No do overs for the CSA.
Yes, we know Lincoln started it - deliberately. He sent a fleet of heavily armed warships which invaded South Carolina's sovereign territory.