It's difficult to say which state politically led the way, but if you are asking which of the southern states fired the first shot of the war, it was South Carolina when the state forces fired on Federal forces manning Fort Sumter, located in the middle of Charleston harbor.
South Carolina.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America. ______________ But he did not lead the south into the Civil War he led them DURING the civil war.
South Carolina.
South Carolina
mostly slavery
Ulysses S. Grant
In south Carolina.
Jefferson Davis led the South and Abraham Lincoln led the North .
I know that before the Civil War, John C. Calhoun was the congressman who led to the session of South Carolina.
Civil War
mostly slavery
South Carolina
In South Carolina.