“What country would that be? Lincoln didn’t recognize the CSA as a country, they were States in Rebellion. Maybe you missed that day in class. But then you appear to approve of what the taliban left is doing here.”
Those soldiers died after being captured while fighting for a country that was not the United States.
They went to their graves in service to a country that was not the United States of America.
According to Lincoln the United States was their country.
Jeff Davis said the CSA was a separate country.
But there was no declaration of war because in Lincoln’s view he was suppressing a domestic insurrection.
You disagree- so does that mean that the wave the bloody shirt camp agrees with Jeff Davis that this was an undeclared war against a sovereign CSA nation?