So wanting to withdraw from a Union that was no longer adhering to the Constitution and was detrimental to the individuals is less than honorable?? And I definitely agree with 2HOW on getting rid of the writers of history based on their terrible inaccuracies. I get so tired of hearing that the "civil war" was over slavery. Yes, it played a role, but if it was "the" reason, explain why the still-confederate state of Tennessee abolished slavery in 1864 before the outcome of the war was decided! There's no way hundreds of thousands of poor southern boys would have put themselves through the hell of that war for the rights of a small percentage of southerners to own slaves. And let us not forget the 10's of thousands of free black men who volunteered for the CSA.