[Question_Assumptions]

Several of my ancesters tried to leave in 1861 but you sent a large army down here to shoot them instead.

"Leaving" implies moving yourself someplace else. My grandfather didn't try to declare a little piece of Scotland as a part of the United States. He picked himself up and came here.

[Texas Federalist]

""Leaving" implies moving yourself someplace else. My grandfather didn't try to declare a little piece of Scotland as a part of the United States. He picked himself up and came here."

You are implying that the United States "owned" the land on which the Southerners made their homes. Why are you on this forum? The feds had no right to invade their homes and the Southerners had no obligation to leave them.