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Originally Posted by Dread Knot
When hundreds of thousands of US citizens donned a foreign uniform in 1861, the Federal Government showed no compunction in killing them in droves for the next four years, even though it still considered them American citizens (in rebellion, the US never recognizing Confederate authority.)
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Well to be fair those rebel US citizens had no compunction in killing other US citizens either and they were the first to fire on the Federal government, not the other way around.