I’m not going to DU. I’m not secesh so I’ll hang around. As for your ancestors, their own words said slavery was the reason, so go to the graveyard and take up with them.
In the words of the Bloody Goon from Illinois the war was not about slavery. Do some research.
Yes, all 5 million of them or so only fought to keep the very thing that *LINCOLN* and the Northern state Representatives and Congress voted to give them on a silver platter for free.
It's strange that they decided to fight and die against invaders murdering their people instead of just taking the deal for permanent slavery which Lincoln and the Northern Reps and Senators voted to give them.
It would have just been so much easier to take the deal for permanent slavery.
Why do you suppose they didn't take Lincoln's offer of permanent slavery protected by Constitutional law?
Why do you suppose they didn't take that deal?