[PeaRidge]

Your reference says nothing about declaration of war, and nothing was said about whether your link worked.

The fact is that your assertion about the ‘declaration of war’ is not factual.

It is obvious that any exchange with you will not provide progress since you are unwilling to acknowledge truth in fact.

Perhaps you find humor in creating fallacy, but that is a fool’s errand.

[BroJoeK]

PeaRidge: "Your reference says nothing about declaration of war"

from the link May 6, 1861: "An act recognizing the existence of war between the United States and the Confederate States..."

PeaRidge: "The fact is that your assertion about the ‘declaration of war’ is not factual.
It is obvious that any exchange with you will not provide progress since you are unwilling to acknowledge truth in fact."

And you have refused to answer my questions:

• First, what is the document's purpose?
  
• Second, in what sense, exactly, is it something other than a formal declaration of war on the United States?

PeaRidge: "Perhaps you find humor in creating fallacy, but that is a fool’s errand."

Answer the questions.
While you're at it, compare to FDR's Day of Infamy Speech:

"I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire."