I learned that as a kid in grade school. Maybe over the years I’ve replaced ‘union’ with ‘Republic’
I come from a family with both Northern and Southern lineage and current family. I’ve only felt uncomfortable with the accents.
It was a stupid war. But America itself was going dunderheaded. Maybe God saw that states’ rights were being abused for iniquity, so in chastisement He declared that was enough. Today we have the opposite problem, a wicked Fedzilla.