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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u No you are of course mistaken...the forces in rebellion fired on the federal fort...perhaps you have heard of it ....Fort Sumpter. Thus began the Civil War. Fort Sumter is and was in South Carolina, a Southern State. From Wikipedia: On December 26, 1860, six days after South Carolina declared its secession, U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson abandoned the indefensible Fort Moultrie and secretly relocated ... Fort Sumter on his own initiative, without orders from Washington. ... Over the next few months repeated calls for evacuation of Fort Sumter from the government of South Carolina and then from Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard were ignored. ... After realizing that Anderson's command would run out of food by April 15, 1861, President Lincoln ordered a fleet of ships... to attempt entry into Charleston Harbor and support Fort Sumter. By April 6, 1861 the first ships began to set sail for their rendezvous off the Charleston Bar. The first to arrive was the Harriet Lane, before midnight of April 11, 1861. On Thursday, April 11, 1861, Beauregard sent three aides to demand the surrender of the fort. Anderson declined, and the aides returned to report to Beauregard. After Beauregard had consulted the Secretary of War, Leroy Walker, he sent the aides back to the fort and authorized Chesnut to decide whether the fort should be taken by force. The aides waited for hours while Anderson considered his alternatives and played for time. At about 3 a.m., when Anderson finally announced his conditions, Colonel Chesnut, after conferring with the other aides, decided that they were "manifestly futile and not within the scope of the instructions verbally given to us". The aides then left the fort and proceeded to the nearby Fort Johnson. There, Chesnut ordered the fort to open fire on Fort Sumter. It was indeed the war of Northern Aggression. Firm Yes, but the Fort was Union property, occupied by Union soldiers and the Confederacy fired on Sumter. Bull Run was 6 days later.
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