And therefore traitors. They really shouldn't be buried under the US flag. Better an unmarked grave.
The state governments ceased to have legitimacy when they seceded, but the citizens of the states who didn't take arms against the United States government (close to half if not more than half) were always US citizens, and not necessarily traitors. Since all southern soldiers and sailers were drafted, they all have an excuse to claim they weren't willing traitors, but they also had plenty of opportunity to enlist in the Union Army as the war went on, and indeed, a very great number did so. Certainly southerners who served in the Union Army should be buried under a US flag whether they were forced to fight under the traitor flag before that or not, but to my knowledge, none of the Hunley crew fell into that category.
Consider that some where active abolutionists who felt a duty to fight for the political entity they supported (at that time a state).
there are so many un-truths in those few lines that i don't know where to start correcting.
NOT only were the VAST majority of southern soldiers VOLUNTEERS, but mostly our lads were self-equipped & UNPAID.
do you REALLY believe ANY of the tripe you posted?
free dixie,sw