[Bull Snipe]

“But it mostly started with Lincoln (a Repub) calling up volunteers to go fight the South.”

After a Federal Fort, manned by soldiers of the Unites States Army was fired on by Confederate forces ordered to do so by Jefferson Davis ( a Dem).

[Svartalfiar]

After a Federal Fort, manned by soldiers of the Unites States Army was fired on by Confederate forces ordered to do so by Jefferson Davis (a Dem).

After running military resupply and prepping for a war as is. Lincoln did his best to try to get SC to do that during a Congressional recess in order to easily have a reason to start the war.