When the insurrectionists illegally seized federal properties and threatened United States troops they committed acts of war against the United States.
>When the insurrectionists illegally seized federal properties and threatened United States troops they committed acts of war against the United States.
And yet the first act of the war was moving warships and troops from the north into a fort in the south to threaten the harbor of a Southern city. The North made the first hostile act, Linlcon very good propaganda notwithstanding. There’s a reason it’s called the war of Northern aggression.