[central_va]

And why did those states want to secede? Because of what they viewed as the threat to their institution of slavery posed by the Lincoln election.

Try to put aside your narcissistic self. The Southerners just plain didn't like you guys. Willing to die, the boys of the South were, just to go there own way. Willing to stand up to the Federal Monster outnumbered 3 to 1. Nothing noble there.....

[Non-Sequitur]

The Southerners just plain didn't like you guys.

Then why didn't they leave earlier? What was it about the election of 1860 that set them off?

Willing to die, the boys of the South were, just to go there own way...

To protect their peculiar institution.

Willing to stand up to the Federal Monster outnumbered 3 to 1. Nothing noble there.....

Sad, really, rather than noble. Oh there's no doubt that they died nobly on the battlefield. But in the end, to have died for nothing.