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A damned drunken rebel mob in Baltimore caused the first deaths of the war by attacking troops doing no more than passing through the city, from one station to another, on their way to the nation's capital.

Of course you could be describing the Boston Massacre, or Lexington Green...

Having declared our Independence from Britain, how long would we tolerate a British Fort in New York harbor trying to collect taxes on our commerce? When they rebuffed our entreaties what do you think we would have done?

Again. Fort Sumter was not a Customs House, never had been, and never became one. You live in a land of myths and lies. The Charleston Customs house had been in rebel hands since December of 1860. Any tariffs collected in Charleston went to the Confederate treasury. Anderson and his men collected no tariffs --- ZERO. They interfered with no commerce in Charleston Harbor. They didn't fire a shot at anyone until they were fired upon.

Davis needed the war, not Lincoln. After months of standoff, support for secession in the upper south, especially Virginia and North Carolina, was slipping. The Confederacy couldn't last long without those two. If he hadn't initiated a shooting war, his little 7-state slave/cotton republic would have collapsed on it's own as people finally came to there senses and realized the economic damage they had done to themselves.

Of course you could be describing the Boston Massacre, or Lexington Green...

You are very ignorant of history, aren't you. You know the names, but you don't know the events.

The British march through the Mass. countryside in April of 1775 was for the express purpose of arresting the patriot leaders who had committed no crimes and seizing guns from the local militia who had committed no crimes. It was the heavy hand of dictatorship that was resisted.

The Union troops who were passing through Baltimore in April of 1861 were not attempting to arrest anyone or to take anyone's guns. They were simply marching from one train station to another, a distance of about 1 mile down Pratt St. --- from one side of the inner harbor to the other -- to get on trains headed to Washington. They weren't staying in Baltimore, and had no intentions of doing anything in Baltimore except to change trains. They were attacked by a drunken mob, lead by treasonous confederate agents. Many of the soldiers were even unarmed.

To attempt to compare those situations shows why you are sucked in by this neo-confederate bull crap. You are ignorant of your own history.