Comment: Excuse me?

We lost because of two things.

1) The death of Stonewall Jackson.
2) General Longstreet's near treachery at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Actually, we could have won the war in the first month if President Davis had authorized Jackson to march on Washington after the battle of First Manassas. Union troops were in total panic and disorder - we could have literally walked into Washington and grabbed Lincoln. Negotiations would have been quite awkward.

The Confederacy got blockaded, burned, bombed (hey, alliteration!), sacked, pillaged, and zerg rushed by numerically, technologically, and logistically superior forces, and still managed to keep fighting for almost five years. If it happened again, we would see guerilla warfare as the primary means of combat, and the Union would have to seriously be concerned about sabotage from inside its borders. Texans wouldn't be the only ones fighting, I promise you.

Of course, you have to ask yourself: would they really be able to get the moral high ground in invading Texas now that the pseudo-justification of slavery is removed? It would be an absolute PR disaster, and a good portion of the military (I know soldiers like this personally) would have none of it.