When writing that, I was thinking more along the lines of some of the soldiers who didn’t have the ‘fervor’ of many
Confederate politicians, but you raise some good points.
I suppose we’ll never know.
An important point to keep in mind. It's very difficult to make generalized statements about the million or so soldiers who served under the confederate flag. They served for all sorts of purposes just as soldiers have in most wars.
But when speaking of the relative handful of politicians who created that government, it is comparatively easy to make the following generalized statement; Very little of what they did had anything to do with 'states rights.'
IMHO, there is little to admire in any of those politicians.