If bouncing a few pellets off the side of your little (figurative) tugboat constitutes war, then the fact that the star of the west was secretly delivering 200 armed infantry and ammunition to Sumter could similarly be characterized as an act of war - moving a hostile organized military force onto land that does not belong to them for the purpose of occupying that land and defending it as their position with military force.
Then your answer is yes. Good deal.
No, the war generally is thought to have begun with the firing on Fort Sumter.
How did we get off on this? I forget.
Too, the land did clearly belong to the federal government because SC ceded it to the feds in an 1836 act of the legislature. You have just as much right to sieze your neighbors house as SC did to sieze the fort.
Walt
Do I take it that now you are changing your position, considering that you stated earlier that the war started the previous december?
How did we get off on this? I forget.
You stated the war began in december, contradicting what you stated above.