It was a pretend secession but it wasn’t a pretend rebellion.
“It was a pretend secession but it wasn’t a pretend rebellion.”
Then how do you explain the parole documents that Southern troops were issued by the federals after the surrender? Specifically, how do you explain that the parole documents identify two contending nations (the United States and the Confederate States of America), and do not at all EVER mention the various individual states (thus, it could not have been a War Between the States). Those parole papers were official United States government documents. You’d think they’d have known against whom they’d been fighting.