When Fort Sumter was attacked, SC had seceded, but many other states didn’t secede until after Lincoln called for 75000 troops to put down the rebellion.
What's that got to do with the price of beans in Boston? Fort Sumter was federal property, built from the seafloor by the states through the federal government, and in an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, not state property.
...but many other states didn’t secede until after Lincoln called for 75000 troops to put down the rebellion.
It was obvious the South wanted war from the start.