Excepting the claim to their own land, when they left the Union!
Leaving the Union is legal. Adhering to the Constitution after leaving is not law. However, it is common sense, that if you want to keep from having a cut off regiment attacked, you don't have a fort in the middle of hostile territory.
It then becomes a question of, what does one do with an ingrown toenail? Do youlet it grow? Or do you remove it? It's painful, it's in the way, and it's potentially dangerous.
Not calling the Union soldiers an ingrown toenail. Far from it, they were courageous men, just as the CSA soldiers. They just should have left when the leaving was good.
But it wasn't their land. They gave up all legal claim to it when it was deeded to the federal government.
Leaving the Union is legal.
Perhaps. But not in the manner the southern states chose.
Adhering to the Constitution after leaving is not law. However, it is common sense, that if you want to keep from having a cut off regiment attacked, you don't have a fort in the middle of hostile territory.
From the administrations standpoint the southern states were still part of the U.S.
It then becomes a question of, what does one do with an ingrown toenail? Do youlet it grow? Or do you remove it? It's painful, it's in the way, and it's potentially dangerous.
When you choose to take a gun and blow the toe off you have to live with the consequences.