How Civil War started?

165318 · Corporal Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1

Anyone can explain?

O'Bruadair · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

If you mean the first shots fired by a Southern State it was 3 rounds of artillery, fired by South Carolina cadets at the “Star of the West” which President Buchannan had sent to supply and reinforce Fort Sumter on 9 January 1861. The first of the three was a warning fired across her bow, the next two hit her. She then turned and sailed out of the harbor.

This did not result in a general war at the time because Buchannan simply did not desire a war. Lincoln on the other hand deliberately provoked the South into firing on Sumter three months later so that he would have an excuse for the war that he wanted.

Leon · Sergeant Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 14 Location: London

Fort Sumter. Honest Abe did not want a 'Mr Lincoln's War' so he made sure that the Confederacy attacked first. Genius.