Irony – “a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.”

On this date 154 years ago, in a battle of the Civil War, the Union forces held off an attack by the Confederate forces to secure parts of Missouri and Arkansas for the United States, in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. This battle, along with other notables, ensured the United States would stay whole.

This culminated with the defeat of the Confederacy, keeping the Confederate States in the United States.

The irony to me, is that as California and other states talk secession, maybe all the original Confederate states simply stay put, bide their time and watch their coastal brothers leave the Union.

Ultimately, wouldn’t that be the same as if they had won the Civil war and left? All that without firing a single shot!