No. They attacked Ft. Sumter because Lincoln would not with draw the troops from there.

They saw it as foreign occupation. The Union was sending reinforcements.

It was still a dumb thing to do. I am from one of the 4 states that didn’t join in until after the crises.

It also caused a civil war among the Cherokee but most of the tribes of what is now Oklahoma were friendly to the Confederacy.

I would agree that it was all about slavery as far as South Carolina was concerned but the causes run far deeper and farther back than 1861.

The rank and file were not concerned with slavery which was a rich mans problem but joined and fought for different reasons.

Even is the 7 deep south states there was lots of anti war sentiment from the beginning.

It is much more complicated than slave and free. It has been an issue of division for almost 200 years and there have been no slaves for more than 147 of those.