What damage? South Carolina fired on its own territory. The Confederacy posed NO threat to the North. It did not even enter Northern territory in any force until the Summer of 1863, more than two years after the start of hostilities. You will recall that it was Lincoln who in the Spring of 1861 called for 75,000 troops to be mustered for the invasion of Southern states. No serious historian would refute the fact that it was the North who was the true aggressor in that conflict. If you were honest, you'd admit it. But your hagiographic infatuation with Lincoln and your well-publicized hatred of the South precludes you from any objective thought in the matter.
When the Southern states walked out of the Union they repudiated responsibility for their share of the national debt, walked away from national obligations, stole every bit of federal property they could get their hands on, and were in a position to cut off large sections of the country from access to the sea. All of which caused financial and economic harm to those states who stayed. And in your view all the remaining states could do is sit back and take it.
The Confederacy posed NO threat to the North. It did not even enter Northern territory in any force until the Summer of 1863, more than two years after the start of hostilities.
Hostilities they themselves initiated by firing on Sumter.
You will recall that it was Lincoln who in the Spring of 1861 called for 75,000 troops to be mustered for the invasion of Southern states.
Prior to that the confederate government had authorized an army of 100,000 men, six or seven times the size of the U.S. army at the time.
No serious historian would refute the fact that it was the North who was the true aggressor in that conflict.
Any serious historian would recognize that it was the confederacy who chose war for whatever reason. War got them Sumter...and lost them everything else.
The fort was federal property deeded over to it by the state decades ago. SC had NO right to fire on it. NO right to take it back. Its actions started the war.
You discussing “honesty” is laughable since your arguments on this issue are based entirely on lies.