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Venice was at the height of its power at that time, and while nominally a Catholic nation, was pretty widely noted to ignore Papal authority and do whatever it pleased -- to the point of being repeatedly threatened with interdiction, and twice *actually* interdicted.

From what I'm finding on research, they were still good friends during the war, as they didn't take each other's opposite loyalties personally. They had actually both moved West to California together, but felt duty-bound to return to their respective home states when the Civil War broke out...

I think it says something that most of the fans of "Confederate history" don't even use a historically correct flag. The pop culture Confederate flag is a modern invention that does not actually match any of multiple historical Confederate flags.

The rights of states under the Confederacy had blatantly hypocritical exceptions, most notably the clause that no state could secede from the Confederacy. They had argued that secession from the Union was a moral right rather than a legal technicality . . . then turned around and conceded that...