If they were fighting a war about slavery, they would have started in Maryland, but because they were fighting a war over economic control of a large money producing area of the country, they started the war in Virginia.
The war was about money and only money, but they launched a propaganda campaign to convince the gullible people that it was about slavery, and that's even after they tried to pass the Corwin amendment which would have made slavery permanent.
The propaganda was so good, that people today still believe it.
You really shouldn't stand in front of the mirror while ranting and raving if you don't want people to notice.
Silly boy. If Maryland had joined the Confederacy the war would have started there, and maybe the Confederacy would even have won. The secessionists didn't win there so there was little point in fighting there.
You seem to be the kind of person who complains about political or military crusades, but faults political movements and military actions for not being crusades. In the real world, people and countries don't fight with everyone who disagrees with them.
We could fight fascism without going to war with Franco or Salazar because they didn't join Hitler and Mussolini. We could oppose Communism and go easy on Tito, because he wasn't as much under the Soviet thumb as other dictators.
The war was about money and only money, but they launched a propaganda campaign to convince the gullible people that it was about slavery
Circular argument. You exclude non-material motives at the outset and then conclude that there weren't any non-material motives. You assume they don't exist, don't look for them, and then conclude that they don't exist and feel proud about your discovery.
What does Maryland, whose leaders decided not to secede, have to do with the confederate states that did? Saying that the Civil War was not about slavery because some parts of Maryland had slaves and did not secede is like saying the American Revolution was not about objections to King George because the Canadian Colonies had taxation without representation yet did not declare independence.
Truly a dumb argument. Why do you post such crap?
So you always argue with yourself?
“I argue with fools, morons and ignorants all the time”