[DiogenesLamp]

I’ve read first hand accounts from the militia my ancestors fought and died with. While slavery wasn’t the reason to start, they just needed one look at it and it became their cause.

Did they go tackle slavery in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia?

Should have been real easy, because those were all Union slave states and the army had to march through them to get to the other slave states.

Because they passed those slave states by, i'm thinking it was something other than slavery that was compelling them to fight.

I laugh when the “civil war perfessers” on FR spout their grand reasons.

I assume you can do simple math. The North - 200 million per year = The South +200 million per year.

I guess money is a "grand reason". It is the real one in any case.

[Vermont Lt]

Just say it…you want some “boy” to mow your lawn.

Defending slavery is abhorrent.