[Svartalfiar]

Having started the war only the Confederacy controlled where it would be fought. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

Actually, it's the complete opposite - the South didn't need to invade the North, didn't want to fight a war at all, they just wanted to be left alone. It wasn't a civil war, it was a succession. In order to 'win', the South needed to do merely nothing. But then Lincoln invaded and that's were war was needed - without it, the North couldn't force the southern states back into the Union. War and invasion was his only option.

[DoodleDawg]

Actually, it's the complete opposite - the South didn't need to invade the North, didn't want to fight a war at all, they just wanted to be left alone.

And yet they went and started the war. Silly of them given all that.

It wasn't a civil war, it was a succession.

Secession, or succession, is not a war. A rebellion is.

In order to 'win', the South needed to do merely nothing.

Including not bombarding the ever-living crap out of a Federal fort. Yet they chose to do so. Does that mean the South chose to 'lose'?

War and invasion was his only option.

Davis started the war. Lincoln fought the war he forced on him.