[4CJ]

"If the intentions of the south were peaceful then why was their first action to create an army 7 times the size of the U.S. army?"

I guess they knew how honest Lincoln was.

[WhiskeyPapa]

I guess they knew how honest Lincoln was.

Or how determined.

Lincoln pretty much said what he was going to do, and he did it.

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

They issued the call for troops before Lincoln had been inagurated and without so much as a single hostile act on the part of the government. Not a single soldier had been called up in the North. My belief is that the Davis government wanted a war no matter what. If Sumter had been abandoned by the North then they would have kept on trying somewhere else.