[Wampus SC]

"Very good. Seems that the southern school system manages to instill some correct information after all. But if you follow the posts back to Post 552 then you'll see that everything I said there was true. And not a single country in the Western Hemisphere engaged in war to end slavery."

Then your contention is that ending slavery wasn't a reason why the United States (a western hemisphere country) engaged in war with the CSA. It couldn't have been a reason, since no country engaged in war to end it. Not disputing that.

[Non-Sequitur]

No arguement there. The goal of the war was the end of the rebellion and the preservation of the Union, and not to end or save slavery. I've never said otherwise. Just like I never said that the defense of the institution of slavery wasn't by far the single most important reason for the southern rebellion in the first place.