Agreed.
I don’t see why holding states together BY FORCE is so nice. If you are disgusted with your spouse is it really a great thing you were forced at gunpoint to stay together?
If you dislike your spouse, feel free to get a divorce.
Don’t shoot at her.
Don’t steal the property.
Don’t try to turn the children raised by you both against her.
Don’t empty the bank accounts.
Don’t burn down the house.
The confederates started shooting at Ft Sumter.
The confederates stole US property, at various forts.
The confederates offered US army officers high promotions in return for a promise of treason.
The prevented collection of US taxes.
They burned numerous cities to include Atlanta GA, Richmond VA and Columbia SC in an attempt to prevent reoccupation.
Per the constituion, controversies between states, or between the states and the federal government were to be resolved at the supreme court, not on the battlefield. The pretended confederates resorted to the war, an act of treason and insurrection.