Well, maybe your heroes shouldn’t have opened up fire on a federal installation and launched an aggressive war against their own legitimate government, because they feared that a Republican president might slightly impinge on their beloved “right” to enslave other men, for their own financial, material gain. Then all that bad stuff wouldn’t have happened to them.
They aren't my heroes. My family didn't arrive in this country till the beginning of the 20th century. They also didn't settle in a Southern state.
I just objectively note that the southern states had a right to leave, as espoused by the founding document of this nation. If we had a God given right to leave the English Union, *THEY* had a God given right to leave the US Union.
So why did General Irvin McDowell lead his army into South Carolina? What was his reasons for doing that? Was he just out for a stroll or something?