Seems to me that whatever shots you think were fired first were fired in South Carolina by citizens of that then CSA state.
Of course, Lincoln invaded; and not just South Carolina.
ML/NJ
Sounds like lost cause ideology.
And Sherman kicked traitorus SC ass
“Seems to me that whatever shots you think were fired first were fired in South Carolina by citizens of that then CSA state.”
Lincoln said that the Confederate States didn’t exist at any time. His war was against American citizens who refused to submit to the authority of the national government, not against another country.
His rationale for refusing to meet with the Confederate government Peace Commission two months before Fort Sumter was that the CSA did not exist.