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I would like to see a link to this information on Star of the West.

It's a bit hard to find. They don't want people to notice this. Here's what Wikipedia says about it. It's not much but it confirms what I just told you.

In January 1861, the ship was hired by the government of the United States to transport military supplies and reinforcements to the U.S. military garrison of Fort Sumter."

After I posted that, I found this better version.

Never heard any such thing.

You will never hear anything that makes it look like the North was the bad guy. Just as all the main players suppress conservative speech nowadays and label stuff "misinformation" if they don't want people to know about it, so too has it always been with the power structure from Washington DC.

Even if true, the south still fired the first shot.

I'm about to tell you something else that you've never heard. No, the South did not fire the first shot. The North, fired the first shot.

In March of 1861, Lincoln ordered the Navy to prepare a fleet of ships to attack the confederates at Charleston. The fleet consisted of Five warships and 1 large passenger carrying ship loaded with troops. These ships left New York around April the 1rst and were set to arrive in Charleston around April 12. The first one to arrive was the "Harriet Lane" and it immediately fired shots at the Nashville.

Confederate forces surrounding Sumter had been aware the fleet was coming, and the arrival of the Harriet Lane confirmed to them that the rest of the warships would soon arrive. They knew what were the official orders of those warships, and they knew they would shortly be attacked by them.

General Beauregard (commander of the confederate forces) attempted to make a truce with Major Anderson. He informed Anderson that those ships were coming, and they would likely engage in battle with the Confederate forces. If Anderson would not fire on his forces, he would not fire on Anderson. Anderson refused, and said that if he fired on any of those ships, Anderson would fire on him with Ft. Sumters guns.

This left Beauregard in the position of having to neutralize Fort Sumter, or risk it attacking him when the rest of the warships arrived. The rest is history.

Sending that fleet of warships with orders to attack them was the "first shot." Lincoln fired it.

The north had every right to resupply the fort.

Firstly, the fort had never been "supplied" because it was never garrisoned before. It wasn't even finished. When Anderson violently took it over in the middle of the night, there were only construction workers there. There were no soldiers, and therefore no "supplies" there. Anderson carried over everything with him in the way of "supplies."

Secondly, Anderson bought food from the locals in Charleston up until late March of 1861 when the Confederate authorities discovered the plot to use Warships to reinforce Sumter, at which point they cut off further supplies to the fort.

Thirdly, the original land grant by the Legislature of South Carolina only gave the land to the Federal government for the purpose of defending the people of Charleston, not to oppress them. The land grant was conditional, and the Federal government never lived up to it's requirements.

There was a second land grant later in which the conditions were removed, but the expectations and purpose of granting the land was still for the purpose of defending the people of Charleston South Carolina.

Also, the Southerners paid for it far more than the Northerners did. The South produced 72% of the total tax revenue stream for the Federal government.