Uncle Kenny
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Totally false. The Southern rebels fired first...a little thing called Fort Sumter.
Where is that located? That was a foreign army that was attempting to force them to rejoin the union at the time. By invading the Union started the war. Read more and assume less. Understanding history requires you know the context, not just the event.
Fort Sumter was a FEDERAL fort on FEDERAL property. And it was fired on by REBELS trying to steal federal property and hurt federal soldiers.
Can you just imagine today if someone fired on a federal installation and the President did NOTHING about it...or worse...just handed it over without a fight? to Traitors?
It wasn't a "Federal" anything, the land was not the United States' land it belonged to SC and they had suceeded from the union. The soldiers were there as invaders from the U.S. when they refused to leave the fort. They were offered the right to surrender and when they didn't they were fired upon. Again it was no longer the property, under law of the U.S. and at that time SC had no "Federal" government affiliation or agreements with the U.S. By right of the Constitution, the soldiers had to surrender and leave SC when asked. They didn't, which violated both SC state law and U.S. federal law and they were fired upon.
If Germany asked us to leave a military base in Germany and we refused to do so, they wouldn't be starting the war if they attempted to drive us out any more than the SC militia started the war by trying to drive invaders out.