Untruer words were never spoken. Lincoln cobbled up that war, and it's all going to come out eventually, unless state archivists start burning the public records of six States whose governors were in up to their eyeballs with Lincoln's launch of the war.
Their responsibility for initiating a war to conquer the departing States and turn them into military provinces, is as absolute as Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's, for starting wars with Austria and France in 1869 and 1870.
Historians see through stuff like yours.
There fixed it for you, FRiend.
lentusgracchus: "Lincoln cobbled up that war, and it's all going to come out eventually..."
The real history is clear and well known to even casual history-buffs.
Immediately after first declaring their state's secession in December 1860, South Carolina state authorities began forcefully seizing Federal properties, threatening Union officials and, in January 1861, firing on Union ships.
Over the next four months Confederates forcefully seized dozens of Federal forts, ships, arsenals and mints.
These were all provocations for war, for which Dough-faced Northern Democrat President James Buchanan made no response.
On April 12, 1861 the Confederacy started Civil War by a direct military assault on Union troops in Union Fort Sumter.
On May 6, 1861 the Confederate Congress formally declared war on the United States.
At the same time, the Confederacy was sending military aid to Confederate forces in Union states like Missouri.
And all of this happened before a single Confederate soldier was directly killed in battle with any Union force, and before any Union Army invaded a single Confederate state.
lentusgracchus: "Their Confederate responsibility for initiating a war to conquer the departing Union States like Missouri and turn them into Confederate military provinces..."
Some of your words take more work than others to fix...
Civil War war began because the Confederacy provoked, started and formally declared war on the United States (on May 6, 1861).
Those are simple facts which no amount of your political propagandizing, spinning and twisting can change.