[quote=DrMaddVibe]Actually thats EXACTLY what they did starting with Ft. Sumter.
At one point during the war they surrounded DC and could've taken the Capitol Building while in full session.[/quote
They did surround DC and could've taken the Capitol Building while in full session but they didn't because they weren't interested in an insurrection.
Ft. Sumter. was on South Carolina land (A Confederate state)
The Union armies had already left all forts throughout the seven seceding states, except Ft Sumpter at Charleston and Ft. Pickens at Pensacola (with the South paying for costs). These were the two forts where Lincoln needed to collect his blessed tariffs.
President James Buchanan had already tried to resupply the fort once, but on January 9, 1861, the ships were driven back by Confederate gunfire, and not wanting to start a war they did not return fire.
When Lincoln took the oath of office in April, he began plans to send a second expedition to resupply the fort which members of his cabinet including Secretary of State William H. Seward warned would be construed as an act of war. The commanding general of the army, Winfield Scott, advised Lincoln to surrender Sumter. Scott argued that the cost of reinforcing the fort was simply too great, and that evacuation “would instantly soothe and give confidence to the eight remaining slave-holding States” in the Union and keep them tied to the nation and the administration. Dicktator Lincoln ignored all advice and dashed any hopes of a peaceful resolution. On April 14, 1861, Major Anderson formally surrendered the fort after the Confederate bombardment.
The next day, Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 men to put down the so-called rebellion and then called for a naval blockade of Southern ports.
Did you know that those are overt acts of war under international laws of war? Who started the war again?
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