ROTFLMAO! You're killing me Walt. Do you ever read the cases YOU cite? Obviously it's from The Prize Cases, 2 Black 635, 67 US 635 (1863).
Since you like the Prize Cases, you'll obviously honor the part where they refer to "the so-called Confederate States."
And of course this:
"He has no power to initiate or declare a war either against a foreign nation or a domestic State. But, by the Acts of Congress of February 28th, 1795, and 3d of March, 1807, he is authorized to called out the militia and use the military and naval forces of the United States in case of invasion by foreign nations and to suppress insurrection against the government of a State or of the United States."
Walt