[BroJoeK]

O.E.O.: "And while the referendum may have been on May 23rd, the Confederate Congress admitted Virginia as a state on May 7th."

May 7 was the day after the Confederacy formally declared war on the United States, May 6, 1861.
So when Virginia joined the Confederacy, it joined a country already at declared war with the United States

[JCBreckenridge]

So you’re saying that the Confederacy was their own country? Then Lincoln invaded another country without permission from congress.

[0.E.O]

May 7 was the day after the Confederacy formally declared war on the United States, May 6, 1861. So when Virginia joined the Confederacy, it joined a country already at declared war with the United States

And as I pointed out, Virginia had already committed hostile acts by seizing federal property weeks before she joined the Confederacy.