My god disingenuouslamp has discovered something no one else has. There must be a grand conspiracy involved to keep this from being public knowledge. But luckily disingenuouslamp has discovered the truth for all of us! (Do I need a sarcasm tag?)
Because you don't have a f***ing mind of your own and must have whatever you know poured into you by an "expert". You are like a liberal with global warming. You only believe what "experts" say, even though you can look up the facts for your self and find out the "experts" are just wrong.
In fact the national park service clearly states that the confederacy opened fire first.
An arm of the US Government says the US government is completely blameless and that all the death and bloodshed was someone else's fault? Go on!
But luckily disingenuouslamp has discovered the truth for all of us!
You aren't interested in any "truth". You are only interested in hearing conformation of what you wish to believe. Truth is actually your enemy on this topic. You HATE the truth, because it doesn't fit what you wish to believe.
Porter opened fire on those ships. He did so with no knowledge of events in Charleston. If you read his memoirs, he does indeed claim to have fired the first shot of the war.
But you don't want to read what Porter has to say about events, because they WILL NOT FIT with what you want to believe.
Grow up and face ugly truths like a man. Don't run and hide and pretend they will just go away.