Our mainstream history books, nearly all written by Liberals and a few uninformed Conservatives, tell us that "Secession was illegal" at the start of the American Civil War, making every Confederate official and Confederate supporter a "traitor." However, Secession was legal in 1815 when the Northern states planned to secede and form a "New England Confederacy," so why was it illegal in 1861 when Dixie planned to form a Southern Confederacy? These same self-appointed revisionists also tell.
Our mainstream history books, nearly all written by Liberals and a few uninformed Conservatives, tell us that "Secession was illegal" at the start of the American Civil War, making every Confederate official and Confederate supporter a "traitor." However, Secession was legal in 1815 when the Northern states planned to secede and form a "New England Confederacy," so why was it illegal in 1861 when Dixie planned to form a Southern Confederacy? These same self-appointed revisionists also tell
