Us Great Great Great grandchildren are the only ones left to speak on behalf of our forefathers, and we should never let up fighting against the Nazification of them. And that is exactly what your post is doing.
These are the same forefathers who also were heroes of the Revolution, stopping Cornwallis’s army at places like King’s Mountain, Cowpens, and New Orleans. You molding them into slave beating, jackbooted Nazi thugs, is not what Lincoln meant when he said “Malice Towards None”
Only about 5% of the soldiers in the Confederacy even owned slaves, and from their small farms or shops they worked in, few benefited in any way from the slavery system.
I have two non slave owning Great Great Uncles who were with the famed 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment who’s motto was “First at Bethel, furthest at Gettysburg, and last at Appomattox”. I am proud as hell of them, for standing up not for slavery, but for standing up to what they saw as an invading army.
You ought to be proud of those men and I too honor their bravery and fortitude. And the fact that they were putting their lives on the line meant that they were not back home extorting, murdering and exploiting their countrymen like the political criminal class that in too many cases led the Confederacy back home and who were unworthy of your great uncles' devotion and courage.
Go Tar Heels. Just visited the Ramseur home near Roxboro. Carolina gave a large portion of brave soldiers to the belief in States rights.