There was a Second War of Independence, in the Pacific Northwest.  Many of those who fought for the Rebellion were far too young to be soldiers. There were rumors about some of these boys, of rigid, unceasing discipline and training from infancy. Those kids, it was said, were just plain dangerous. 

In the beginning of the crisis, six of the seven States of the Alliance had no original serious intention to secede, much less go to war. 

But then the Federals did something really stupid.

Years later, in a central African hell-on-earth, the now-grown men who had fought for liberty find themselves once again forced to ask if there are worse things than war. The answer to that was the answer to a question a certain man asked long ago.

"...the Lord raised them up a deliverer... a man left-handed..."  Judges 3:15