It isn't, although the presence of the SCV, given their current direction, gives me pause.
No, what I think is that by posting the thread here, on a forum that is, at it's heart (and despite all the fluff), political, it's the Lost Causers who have politicized it, using this service to advance their agenda, which seeks to portray the Civil War as having nothing to do with slavery ("Look! See the black man who served in the Confederate Army, and pay no attention to the fact that he was an 11 year old slave at the time. That proves that it wasn't about slavery, or that slavery wasn't so bad, or something like that!"). For those same southern partisans to then complain that any dissent from this opinion means that we're disrespecting the dead is simply a familiar pattern and a sign of a weak argument.
Get past your racism and read about an uplifting story and memorial befitting an honorable man.
I have always contended, and even Lincoln's own words indicate that the freeing of the slaves was an outcome of the war and not the primary cause of the war. Lincoln, if the Union was to be preserved, would have struck an agreement continuing slavery.
His long contemplation of the Emancipation proclamation and the timing of it's issuance was based to a large extent on military considerations and not primarily based on a magnanimous cause of freedom.
or that slavery wasn't so bad, or something like that
I have never stated or implied such (nor have you implied that I have).