Lincoln and Ft. Sumter

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Author Richard Current in his Lincoln and the First Shot had this to say:

"Biographers of Davis and historians of the Confederacy have evaded or obscured their hero's role in the Sumter affair. They have digressed to levy accusations or innuendoes at Lincoln. If they have any concern for historical objectivity, however, they should face frankly the question of Davis's responsibility for the coming of the war. Upon them, upon his partisans, should rest the burden of proof. It should not have to be borne forever, as it has for too many years, by Lincoln's champions. After all, Lincoln did not order the guns to fire. Davis did."