I realize you are heavily biased on this issue, and feel a compulsion to constantly put out your words. Perhaps some of your ancestors were heavily involved in the Union, and it hurts you to think of them as oppressors, but it is not healthy to be so obsessed with a topic that you are still camping out in a thread since yesterday.
Oh, and Patriots defend their own country, not invade others.
Then why are you here?
Oh, and Patriots defend their own country, not invade others.
The union troops didn't invade another country. They invaded a portion of the union that was in a state of insurrection.