BlueandGrayl
First Sergeant
- Joined
- May 27, 2018
- Location
- Corona, California
We all know the familiar tale of Fort Sumter it was a Federal military installation in South Carolina in the city of Charleston that was attacked by Confederate forces thus the first shots of the Civil War and the conflict began.
However it may have been different if the Confederates opted not to fire upon Sumter you see whereas Jefferson Davis was in favor of direct military action against the Federals Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia on the other hand didn't. Toombs believed that it would be bad for the Confederacy to fire the first shots and lose political sympathy in the North as well as the border states.
If the Confederates don't attack Fort Sumter what happens next, will there still be Upper South (and possibly Missouri and Kentucky) secession, will the Union fire the first shots instead?
However it may have been different if the Confederates opted not to fire upon Sumter you see whereas Jefferson Davis was in favor of direct military action against the Federals Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia on the other hand didn't. Toombs believed that it would be bad for the Confederacy to fire the first shots and lose political sympathy in the North as well as the border states.
If the Confederates don't attack Fort Sumter what happens next, will there still be Upper South (and possibly Missouri and Kentucky) secession, will the Union fire the first shots instead?