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I don’t view secession as an insurrection. A group of states doesn’t create their own Federal Government and Capitol declare independence to then turn around and invade the Country they just left. That wouldn’t make sense. Secession is the opposite of an insurrection.

[Non-Sequitur]

A group of states doesn’t create their own Federal Government and Capitol declare independence to then turn around and invade the Country they just left. That wouldn’t make sense.

Very little of the confederate cause in 1861 makes sense. Still, the fact remains that the confederate states chose war and paid the penalty for their actions.