Is there where you trot out the old "south paid 99.9 percent of the tariff" nonsense?
Reading the histories of Sherman, Charleston, Fort Sumter, and the tariff collection point that was shifted to a choke point in the harbor.
See, now there you lost me because you showed your true colors by shifting into full-blown southron myth mode. Sumter was a tariff collection point? Sumter was a fort. Not one dime was collected their either before or during Anderson's occupancy. The 'tariff collection point' as you put it was officially called the U.S. Customs House and as I recall it was located on East Bay Street. Convenient to the docks where the tariff would be collected in the first place.
And I'd be glad to recommend some books on Sherman and Sumter, as well as Lincoln's writings if you're interested.
Reading the intentions of the South and the intentions of the North in the newspapers of the times, in the letters of their generals and in the actions against dissent within their own civilian populations.
How about the intentions in the words of the leaders of the time? Ever try that?
Reading the causes of prisoner abuses.
That's an easy one. The leading cause of prisoner abuse was an almost criminal neglect on the part of both the North and the South. Both sides ran what amounted to death camps. Both sides could have housed their prisoners better, but they didn't. Both sides could have fed their prisoners better, but they didn't. Both sides could have put competent men in charge of their POW systems, but they didn't. Neither side has any moral high ground for the mistreatment of the prisoners in their care, and neither side has any valid excuses either. In a perfect world men on both sides would have been tried and punished for their actions.
No silly, they moved out of the collection point to Fort Sumter.
That in and of itself is an act of war.
Precisely because the fortification in town was not as defensible a fort and would not act as a choke point. Fort Sumter accomplished both.
Similarly you seem to have a problem with the simple understanding of everything else written.
I am deeply saddened by your lack of literacy and shall leave you to argue with stand_watie, as you share a level of literacy I’m unable to pierce.