Thanks for the rest of the story. This is why I like discussion boards becaaue I love haring from people who know stuff that I dont :-)
I remember when I was learning about the civil war in junior high, and they got to the part about the South attacking fort Sumter. I asked the teacher why they did it, and his response was "They were just a bunch of hot heads."
That answer never sat well with me.
It was years later when a friend of mine who was a history major told me that Lincoln deliberately provoked them in order to get a war, but it is something i've never seen in any of my history books.
But eventually I uncovered what really happened. Lincoln needed the war, but he wanted to make them look like the bad guys, so he called his fleet a "supply mission" and told everyone he was "just sending bread to Anderson."
And then he would lock up any newspaper people who said otherwise.