Iam going to help you out George, HERE is a QUOTE from one the most highly respected officer`s in the Army of Northern Virginia
GENERAL EDWARD PORTER ALEXANDER from his book FIGHTING FOR THE CONFEDERACY, in the section EARLY DAYS page 25;
"I think it is even now admitted by all candid & unprejudiced NORTHERN WRITERS that when the states formed the union by the adoption
of the constitution they reserved their SOVEREIGNTY in that instrument itself.
WE HAD THE RIGHT TO SECEDE whenever we saw fit,& it was truly for our liberty that we fought.SLAVERY brought up the discussion of the right in CONGRESS & THE PRESS, but the south would have NEVER UNITED as it did in sucession & in WAR had it not been generally denied
at the NORTH & particually by the REPUBLICAN PARTY.WELL THAT WAS THE ISSUE OF THE WAR."

Quite beating a dead horse to make it look like a just and holy war FOR THE NORTH when in reality it was about MONEY.If you want i can go through some more books like DOUGLAS SOUTHAL FREEMAN and QUOTE YOU ALL YOU WANT ABOUT WHY THE SOUTH FOUGHT. SOOOOOOO GIVE IT A REST AND TALK ABOUT SOME FLAG HISTORY.