Naw.
Fort Sumter had been abandon for years, never completed. The US Army occupied the old fort after South Carolina succeeded from the Union. The fort, on and island in Charleston harbor actually began then as part of an undeclared blockade. Lincoln sent resupply ships to the fort in April 1861 and began the Union Blockade of the South at that time also. All acts of war. Then the South Carolina opened up on Sumter, which historian claim as the start of war, ignoring the original acts of war already committed on Lincoln's orders. Illogical in my view to ignor invading the territory of the south and Blockading it too, both, recognized in international law as acts of war.
Lincoln attempted to say the Southern states were rogue states not a separate country, therefore invasion and Blockades were not an act of war. Well hell, what sort of bullshit is that? If true then where the hell did he get Constitutional authority to do any of the shit he ordered in making war?
The South had been gone from the Union since the prior year before Lincoln started his war!
"
The
Union blockadein the
American Civil War was a naval strategy by the
United Statesto prevent the
Confederacy from trading.
The blockade was proclaimed by President
Abraham Lincoln in April 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of
Atlantic and
Gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably
New Orleans and
Mobile. Those
blockade runners fast enough to evade the
Union Navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed. They were operated largely by
Britishcitizens, making use of neutral ports such as
Havana,
Nassauand
Bermuda. The Union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war."
Stop the South from trading!
Lincoln wanted them to pay the super high tariffs the tyrants in the North imposed on the stuff the South used. That is why the bugger went to war.
