[DoodleDawg]

And yet the first act of the war was moving warships and troops from the north into a fort in the south to threaten the harbor of a Southern city. The North made the first hostile act, Linlcon very good propaganda notwithstanding.

You forgot about the South firing on the Star of the West and the Rhoda Shannon I see. Both before they fired on Sumter.

There’s a reason it’s called the war of Northern aggression.

Let me guess. Ignorance?

[JohnyBoy]

>>There’s a reason it’s called the war of Northern aggression.

>Let me guess. Ignorance?

Ignorance, more like willful stupidity. The North invaded the South, the south didn’t invade the North.

[DiogenesLamp]

You forgot about the South firing on the Star of the West and the Rhoda Shannon I see. Both before they fired on Sumter.

If you are going to split silly hairs, Union troops fired on Florida Militia before either of the events you mentioned.