re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?

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We concentrate a lot on the successes of Lee in Virginia mostly. But the things that were happening in the Western theatre of the war was far more important strategically than anything that was going on in Northern Virginia. When the Union took Nashville in February of 1862, then Farragut takes New Orleans in April and then the Union lands 60,000 troops in Shiloh in April/May of 1862....it was game over. Lee and Jackson could futz around all they wanted around Virginia. DC was never going to be taken after 1st Bull Run.

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Pow.

There is a lot of focus on the VA theater and what a great tactician Lee was.

Lee never won any decisive success. Ever.

The only general from Virginia with a decisive success was George 'Old Pap' Thomas.



Note the blue suit.

After his victory at Nashville, Thomas hounded the whipped rebels in pursuit until the Army of Tennessee was pretty much no more.