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Check away. The confederate congress passed legislation authorizing an army of 100,000 men for 12 months service on March 6, 1861, well over a month before Lincoln's call for troops in response to the southern aggression at Sumter.

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Check away. The confederate congress passed legislation authorizing an army of 100,000 men for 12 months service on March 6, 1861, well over a month before Lincoln's call for troops in response to the southern aggression at Sumter.

I'll take your word for it. It doesn't change the fact the the north was the invader, nor that the north committed many atrocities, beginning with the constitutional atrocity of suspension of the writ of Habeus Corpus, and violation of the revolutionary war principles of "VOLUNTARY UNION." I haven't seen any historian make a good case yet that the southern states could not legally secede from the union. Might made it right, eh. PC history classes like to focuse on the evil south but conveniently ignore nothern evils.