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How would the war have been sparked (if at all) if the south had not fired on Fort Sumter? Did Lincoln intionally provoke them by leaving Federal troops on the island so the north wouldnt be viewed as the aggressor?
More than likely another powder keg would have set things off. Ft. Sumter just turned out to be the time and place. However, had the South not fired first, some think Europe would have been more sympathetic to the South and perhaps in many parts of the North as well. As it turned out though, the South was pegged the aggressor and therefore committed state suicide.
It just seems like more than a coincedence that all the south had been vacated as it were except Sumter which just happened to be in Charleston, South Carolina, a seat of secession. Remember, Lincoln said he would do whatever it took to preseve the union.
