[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "Lincoln opened fire on them first by sending a war fleet with orders to use it’s entire force to put men and weapons into fort Sumter."

A lie which DiogenesLamp well knows but repeats endlessly anyway.

In fact, Lincoln's order to his commanders was the same as he directly told SC Governor Pickens: no first use of force.

Confederates fired first to seize Fort Sumter, resulting in six Union casualties (7%), two of whom died.

The Union seven percent casualty rate is equivalent, for example, to British losses at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781.

[DiogenesLamp]

A lie which DiogenesLamp well knows but repeats endlessly anyway.

You very much wish it were a lie, but as I have also pointed out endlessly, every member of Lincoln's cabinet except one said Lincoln's actions in sending that war fleet was going to cause a war.

Major Anderson immediately realized it was going to cause a war when he heard of the plan. The decision to go to war was Lincoln's, and everyone around him at the time clearly understood this.