Sorry the South started the war.. Who fired the first shot??
The war was started by Linclon , who secretly had a Union warship entered Confederate waters to resupply a fort had had already been ordered to be turned over to Confederate forces as it was in a Confederate state. The Confederate States had legally withdrawn from the Union supported by the 15 th President Buchaan who ordered a peaceful transfer of all Northern bases to the Southern control. Warning shots were fired at the Union warship to force it to withdraw from Confederate waters. Lincoln did not have the support in Congress to declare war, so he created a incident to start one by declaring that the South had attacked a Union warship. And then he started the formation of a new army to attack the South without Congressional approval.(unconstitutional)