When you keep repeating something that is demonstrably untrue, at some point it can no longer be regarded as an "accident" that you are getting it wrong.
Here's something I want to to look up bozo, just as a matter of my family's personal history: The US Army Field Surgeons Manual by William C. Grace. That's my great-great grandfather. He wrote that. What did yours do?
I have no idea, but whatever it was he did, he did it in Denmark. I don't think the American Civil War was a thing over there at that time. He was probably more concerned with the Slesvigske Krig.
So you have a personal interest in seeing the war a certain way. I have no personal interest in the war, and I don't have to look at it a certain way to justify the actions of my ancestors.
For that reason I can be objective about it, and call things as I see them.
The war is the this way Poindexter: THE SOUTH STARTED IT AND LOST!!