[BroJoeK]

central_va: "The only way to settle the dispute is on a battlefield.
Your type leaves no other alternative."

Actually, there were plenty of alternatives which didn't require war, but none of those which Confederate leadership wanted to pursue.

Like you appear to, they were itching for excuses to start war, and soon enough found them.

[central_va]

Abe Lincoln said in is second inaugural that agents were in DC, why didn’t he negotiate? Lincoln is simply a warmonger and war criminal and by his own words we know that.