IMO, it would have been treason as well as a true civil war had the goal been to take over the U.S. government. That was not the case. The populations of the "free and independent" states of the time voted to secede and form their own country.
It was a failed revolution but the confederates were no more traitors than the so called founding fathers. Only difference is that they lost their war. If Lee was a traitor so was George Washington and the gang.
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