Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Confederacy was just a bunch of good ol' boys sitting around in their garage talking about guns when Lincoln sent the feds in to shoot up the place.
What Clyde doesn't want to admit is that the Confederate government was a government like other governments, aggressive, militarist, imperialist, power-hungry, and intent on achieving objectives that didn't have much to do with welfare of the average (non-slaveowning) citizen, let alone of the enslaved masses.
Instead he wants a victim story about how the rebels were jes' ordinary folks and the federals intervened to create a superstate that wouldn't actually arise until decades later.
Actually any good southern boy back in the day relished the thought of killing a Yank or two. Breaking the Union up and getting away from the arrogant and forever power hungry North was an honor and a duty.
The Constitution of the CSA was almost identical to the US Constitution. The Confederate Seal shows George Washington on his horse. If Washington had been around in 1861 he would have sided with the South, for the exact same reasons Lee would not take up arms against his state (country).