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In dc.general, wfszewc@afterlife.ncsc.mil (William F. Szewczyk) writes:
>In article <DZOEY.92Sep17225713@frob.eng.umd.edu> dzoey@frob.eng.umd.edu (Josep
>h Herman) writes:
.>Well, actually it is true.  West Virginia joined the Union during the Civil
.>war when Virginia had seceded from the Union.  Virginia was not technically
.>a state at that point.

>Actually it is not true.  From the Union's point-of-view the Southern
>states did not secede, they were in rebellion.  As far as Lincoln was
>concerned they were still a part of the United States and he was just
>trying to preserve the Union.  (A good book on Lincoln's thought on this
>issue is Garry Wills's book *Lincoln at Gettysburg*.)

If the South had won the Civil War, then the "secession" would have
succeeded; but since they lost, it didn't and the South was in "rebellion"..

Right???...

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