[Homer_J_Simpson]

The War Commenced: The First Gun Fired by Fort Moultrie Against Fort Sumpter – 2-3
Important Correspondence Preceding the Bombardment – 3
Mr. Fox’s Visit to Fort Sumpter – 3
The Kentucky Volunteer Regiment – 3
Excitement in Mobile – 3
The Confederate States Congress – 3
The News in Washington – 3-4
General Washington News: The Morrill Tariff Not so Bad – 4-5
The News in New York – 5-6
The Pennsylvania War Bill – 6
Effects of the War in Baltimore – 6
The War Excitement: Military and Naval Movements – 6-7
Editorial: The War Against the Government of the United States – 7-8
Editorial: War at Last – 8
Editorial: The South and the Union – 8-9
The Government Policy: Intentions of the Administration – 9-10
Academy of Music – 10
Melancholy Death of a Boston Lawyer – 10
Amusements this Evening – 10

[KC_Lion]

What a sad day in our History.

I wish this never would have happened.

[BroJoeK]

"The War Commenced: The First Gun Fired by Fort Moultrie Against Fort Sumpter – 2-3"

"CHARLESTON, Friday, April 12.
The ball has opened. War is inaugurated."

Please notice, there's no disagreement between news reports from Charleston and New York that firing on Fort Sumter is the beginning of civil war.

Nobody then claimed that war actually began somewhere else, at some other time or from some other events.
Confederates firing on Fort Sumter was the beginning of war, just as was Pearl Harbor and 9/11/2001.

[BroJoeK]

"General Washington News: The Morrill Tariff Not so Bad – 4-5"

"...A gentleman from Maryland told me today that the new tariff was doing much to keep that State loyal.
He represents the iron and coal interests of the State, and he thinks the same beneficial influences will be felt in Virginia and North Carolina, in both of which States the mining interests are fast becoming paramount."

The gentleman was right about Maryland, but not so much about Virginia & North Carolina.

[BroJoeK]

"General Washington News -- Finances of the Confederate States"

This article notes that Confederates can only finance their government by forced loans from their banks.
It then also notices that Union tariff revenues in 1861 are actually ahead of 1860 year-to-date, despite the negative effects of the new higher Morrill Tariff.