You know, if we can believe Diogeneslamp’s story, this topic is tbe heart & soul of what brought him to the Lost Cause.
He says his African American roomate laughed in mockery of Jefferson Davis for getting “fooled” by tricky Abe Lincoln into starting war at Fort Sumter.
So Diogeneslamp tells us repeatedly that, no it was really Lincoln’s “war fleet” which fired the “first shots” and “tricked” poor Jefferson Davis into war.
But what if the real truth is Davis wasn’t “tricked” into anything, , but instead brilliantly started war knowing it would at least double the Confederacy and solidify its citizens support?
What if the one event which turned Diogeneslamp from a disinterested Unionist to a vigorous Lost Causer turns out he misunderstood it?
Kinda reminds one of blasey-ford, donut?