The people who fired on the Supply ship (star of the west) were not part of the Confederate Army, they were cadets at the Citadel, and they had no instructions from the Confederate government to do so. They took it upon themselves to do that.
Additionally, the reason the confederates attacked Ft. Sumter was because Lincoln had sent a fleet of warships to Charleston with orders to attack the confederates if they refused to allow them to resupply fort Sumter.
Facing a possible simultaneous attack from the guns of Ft. Sumter and the cannons of the war ships, the Confederates decided to neutralize the one threat before they would have to face the other.
It was the arrival of the war fleet that triggered the firing on Ft. Sumter, but the fact that Lincoln sent those warships to attack the Confederates is never taught in the history books, because it makes it look like Lincoln deliberately started the war.
Which he did.
A while back several of us went round and round with this; I don’t feel like getting into it again. Thanks.
Good posts.