[DoodleDawg]

The attacker starts the war. Lincoln sent his attack force, and that started the war.

So you keep saying.

Had he instead sent nothing but a supply ship, nobody could claim that he sent a belligerent force.

Tried that with the Star of the West. The Confederates fired on that one anyway.

[DiogenesLamp]

Why does everyone keep repeating the lie that the "Star of the West" was a "supply ship"?

It was secretly carrying a whole host of Union troop reinforcements with munitions. It was a military reinforcement ship, not a "supply" ship.