“Remember, if a state declares itself a free entity, the provisions of The Posse Comitatus Act would not apply to them, as the military forces lined up just outside their borders.”
There was no internet, television, or twitter in the 1860s.
If there had been, perhaps the results of the conflict then might have been different.
Doesn’t matter if they win or lose — this time, when the federal government sends troops to crush a state or group of states, the “U.S.A.” will be over. If not as a nation, as an idea.
The Idea of the US is over.
We are just here to pay its debts.