As of April 27th, the day Lincoln ordered North Carolina blockaded, to answer your question, the Tarheels hadn't done squat and were still United States citizens and members of the Union. Earlier in the year, traitors in North Carolina had siezed two federal forts.
You can look it up.
But I guess ignorance is bliss-- or maybe you knew that, but can now plead plausible deniability through -pleading-ignorance.
Walt
Walt: I'm enjoying the argument and tend to be on your side of it, but you would do better to drop the personal attacks. They add nothing to the debate and weaken your case.