Well, my thinking goes back to a letter to Lincoln from an Illinois acquaintance just before Fort Sumter. The man told Lincoln to start the war, but make it look like Davis started it. How the events actually took place, it looks just like that's what happened. Beauregard doesn't help my ideas because he refused to admit he was tricked in his biography (that he wrote); he was that way, according to him, he controlled everything in his life.
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David Upton