New Hampshire to Secede from the US?
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That was tried once and the result was catastrophic, with 750,000 dead. That more or less settled the secession question. What NH should do is renounce any fealty to the Federal Government, but remain in the Union. After all, it was the STATES that created the Federal government, not the other way around.
Side Note: How sure are we about the astronomical numbers of soldiers that were reported to have been killed in the Civil War which occurred at the beginning of the 1860s?
I rounded that number, but most sources I've read on the Civil War (including a visit to the Franklin, TN, civil war battle site last week) seem to agree that the number is in that vicinity. I know birth and death records may not have bee fully institutionalized back then, but military units generally knew their own strength and numbers.