[Happy Rain]

Slavery served the rich planters and the politicians in their pockets.The average fighting CSA trooper was fighting for his home and his state against the Yankee barbarian hordes,looting,raping,murdering and burning—to them,they paid an additional cost for slavery because of the thousands of blacks everywhere who were telling the Bluebelly invaders everything they wanted to know about Confederate numbers,movements,lines of supply and little known routes the Union Armies could use for flanking.
That's how Grant took Vicksburg.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Cleburne wrote:

"As between the loss of independence and the loss of slavery, we assume that every patriot will freely give up the latter — give up the negro slave rather than be a slave himself."

He was wrong in his assumptions about the Richmond gang. The politicians who ran the Confederacy were no patriots.