[RenegadeNC]

"No state has ever been out of the Union for single second."

Are you sure about that? Each of the former Confederate states had to be readmitted into the Union during the 1866 - 1870 timeframe...well after the war had ended.
How and why would you readmit someone who hasn't left?

[WhiskeyPapa]

"No state has ever been out of the Union for single second."

Are you sure about that? Each of the former Confederate states had to be readmitted into the Union during the 1866 - 1870 timeframe...well after the war had ended. How and why would you readmit someone who hasn't left?

What was involved was allowing congressmen and senators to take their seats, not readmitting the states themselves.

Walt

[Grand Old Partisan]

The seced states were not readmitted to the Union as in joining the USA, but that its Senators and Representaitves would be seated in Congress and that its Electoral Votes would count. Citizens of the rebel states were always citizens.