LINCOLN TRIGGERS CIVIL WAR 1861

The President Lincoln sent a supply ship to the Harbor of fort Sumter knowing it would be fired on, to trigger the start of the Civil war.  He said that if the nation was going to be in a war at least it was a ‘Just’ War.

The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist), and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.