The Union Soldier of the Northern states was the side he was on.
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Patronage. You had to be well-connected in Washington or in your State house, and ask for sponsorship. Or you might be a politician-in-uniform - not a popular breed.
It might have to be abandoned, since it would have been totally surrounded by enemy states. That is why Lincoln arrested Maryland politicians who were trying to swing the vote to the Confederacy - actualy breaking Habeas Corpus.
I think you might mean civil disobedience. If so, there are many great famous individuals who practiced and encouraged civil disobedience, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks.
The American Civil War was caused not by slavery but by economic factors.