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The real start of the war is so plain a blind man should be able to see it. When Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers there was no doubt what they were for. No one thought the South was going to attack the North. Fort Sumpter was in Charleston harbor, not Boston.

And when Jefferson Davis and the confederate congress authorized raising an army of 100,000 men a month before the attack on Sumter then what were they for? The start of the war was the bombardment of Sumter, the moment when the south made it clear that they were not, and had never been interested in a peaceful solution.

You should also remember that the CSA invaded Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland and tried to use FORCE to conquer them and make them part of the CSA. All three states had only small CSA-sympathizer minorities, but that didn't stop the CSA from asserting they were part of the confederacy. BTW, all three states had senators in the CSA Senate.

The CSA also tried to use force to keep WV from seceding from VA and they were ruthless in their oppression of the East Tennessee unionists.

The worst American president was Jeff Davis. Traitor, Tyrant, coward, and fool.