Quote Originally Posted by Obnoxious Bitch View Post
The South firing on Fort Sumter after evicting federal troops from nearby forts is the shot that eventually started battle but the motive to wage war was not retaliation for Fort Sumter being fired upon. You make it sound like the Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter for shits and giggles and the north went into raging meltdown mode looking kill everyone that didn't share the Union's butthurt feelings about the Confederacy.
No, I'm saying the south fired on Fort Sumpter and the north declared war on them as retaliation for their sneak attack. It was no different than Pearl Harbor.