PeaRidge:
"there is no vote of the Confederate Congress declaring war.
Say what you will, you have no fact." A ridiculous semantic distinction with no practical, legal or logical significance.
- From December 1860 through April 1861 secessionists committed rebellion and provoked war against the United States.
- From March 3, 1861 the Confederacy prepared militarily to start war against the United States at Fort Sumter.
- On April 12, the Confederacy started war by a military assault on United States Army forces in Fort Sumter.
- On April 23, Jefferson Davis offered military aid to Confederate forces in the Union state of Missouri.
- On May 6, the Confederate Congress, in effect, formally declared war on the United States, and President Davis approved.
In the mean time, no Confederate soldier was killed in battle with any US force, and no Union army "invaded" any Confederate state.
It is apparent that you would like your issues to have some sort of legal or logical significance, but there is none, other than various dates and locations of acts of insurgents that you deem as important while leaving out acts of the Northern states that were true acts of war.
The Supreme Court of the United States affixed the date of the start of the war as the date that Lincoln ordered the call for troops and the blockade.
Their argument was simply that War is declared by the public act of a legally empowered government body. According to the Confederate Constitution, the legal body empowered to declare war was its Congress.
You cannot produce any document of the Congress that records a vote for war.