[Bluegrass Conservative]

Picked the wrong side.

Exactly. From everything I have read, General Lee was a very honorable man. He just put his loyalty with his state rather than with his country.

[StonyBurk]

As did a majority of Americans -when we were new.And
understood the US Constitution.

[eddie willers]

He just put his loyalty with his state rather than with his country.

Keep in mind that the term in 1861 was united States.

Virginia was a sovereign State with an agreement with other sovereign states.

It would be much like if the United States (as it is now a sovereign country after the WBTS) pulled out of the UN and the UN went to war with us to prevent that secession.

Would you call G. W. Bush (or yourself) a traitor?