Well, that’s the argument, isn’t it? The roughly 9 million white residents of the southern states (Note that I do not include the approximately 3.5M African American residents) thought they were no longer part of the Union. Other people (the US Government, the roughly 19M residents of the states that didn’t secede, and the whole rest of the world) thought they were.
There was a long, 4 year court case on this, and a final decision was rendered at Appomattox Court House.
According to the results of this adjudication, they were citizens of the United States, and traitors. After the results of this court case, I believe that most of them later became, at the very least, residents, if not citizens, of the United States. Therefore they were traitors.
I stand by my assertion that US Army bases should not be named after traitors. I believe that they should be renamed after Medal of Honor winners from that state.
American Army bases should be named after American Army heroes.
Your theory is clearly incorrect as even a cursory reading of history would indicate. Civil War veterans received pensions as did their widows. Try not to allow your emotions to rule your thinking, that’s a leftist trait.
I am sorry to inform you that your assumption here is FLAT wrong. I cite as proof of my argument that the Confederacy was accepted as a separate country at the time the case involving the creation of the state of West Virginia. West Virginia was admitted as a state on June 20th, 1863 after having been a part of the state of Virginia. Had Virginia been seen by the United States Government at that time as a full fledged state of the union, West Virginia could not have been formed as it was specifically forbidden in the Constitution that you are so proud to mention under Article IV, Section 3.
Article IV, Section 3
1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."
That West Virginia was allowed to become a state of it's own is PROOF that the state of Virginia was seen as belonging to the Confederacy at that time. Soldiers fighting in the Confederate army could not be classified as traitors to the United States because at that time, the United States was a separate nation.
You sir have never served.