The Federal Army in 1861 was very retarded and the actions of federal officials towards the opening salvos of the civil war during the 1850s were even more so.
By 1864 the retards were all dead or fired, and the feds weren't just bringing the hammer. They were bringing Armageddon. People really dont appreciate how savage the American Civil War was. The Union Army literally SACKED entire cities towards the end of the war. Atlanta, Savannah, and Richmond were razed to the ground by Federal soldiers.
In the 1850s, the Federal officials on the frontier and in the South did not truly believe they would be put in a position where they would have too fight their countrymen. But things kept escalating and it soon became abundantly clear the people around them had no ties of fraternity.
This is why I find the videos of protesters in portland calling ICE agents "facists" while "the community" in Chicago rallies too prevent the arrest of an foreign national, and doing so without knowing any context for why it is happening. Other then that it is the feds arresting some brown person.
This can lead too consequences nobody in Chicago and Portland are truly prepared for.
Its important too remember that even today the Federal Government is not set up for internal security. The States are supposed too manage that, as part of their own domestic sovereignty. But it has now been shown that not only have several states abrogated this responsibility, they will now actively hinder the Federal government stepping into the breach they deliberately made