On the Fact that (According to Historians, Lochlainn Seabrook and Charles Adams) Lincoln's Decision to "Reprovision" Fort Sumter In April of 1861 (a Completely Unnecessary Act In that Provisions Were Being Sent On a Daily Basis by the People of Charleston) Was Stridently Opposed by His Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Navy, Much of His Military Brass, and Even Many Abolitionists (Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, Especially)

Caleb B. Smith, Lincolns Secretary of the Interior, even warned Mr. Lincoln that, "if you send in provisions it will trigger a civil war."......Of course if that's your goal to begin with, warnings be damned, I guess.