[DiogenesLamp]

I don't see any financial numbers in your response. It's about money. It's always about money. The "It's about slavery!" dodge is just an attempt to cover up the fact that it was about money.

[SoCal Pubbie]

What do you mean there were no numbers in my response! Now 43 isn’t a number?

By the way it wasn’t a response.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: " It's about money.
It's always about money.
The "It's about slavery!" dodge is just an attempt to cover up the fact that it was about money. "

I suspect we can "get" DiogenesLamp if we realize "it's about money" for the Confederacy is a huge step up towards the light of high moral ground, from the gutter mud of "secession & war for slavery".

But in exchange he wants to insist that Union motives were also "about money".
See? Now everybody is the same, everybody is equally guilty of "war for money"... well except that Confederates weren't really fighting for "money", were they, but for freedom, justice and the American way, right?

So having pulled up Confederate motives from dirty "slavery" to at least sane "money", he next wants to leap-frog over Union "grubby money" concerns to assert Confederate higher values of freedom, etc...

So it seems, DiogenesLamp wants to metaphorically accomplish what 15th Alabama's Col. Oats couldn't at Little Round Top -- grab the moral high ground and turn the Union flank to pour his moral fire down on us hapless money-grubbing Northerners!

Not buying it.
Fix bayonets!

;-)