What are you talking about? Of course the Confederacy knew that Lincoln, was coming now did they not still try to revolve things peacefully? they did including offering to pay their half of federal debt in addition,too the forts at the same time getting at the ready for whatever was going to happen and coming their way.
FT. Sumter was a false flag Lincol, in his lied his teeth out about not supplying or reinforcing the fort he goaded the Confederacy into firing the first shots as he did needed an excuse for war to reclaim an economy that was going all too pieces after the South formally left the union.
I’d dare say Sherman’s March to the Sea was not anticipated by the Confederacy in 1861.
True that.
Unfortunately, the victors write the history.