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The Southerners just plain didn't like you guys.

Then why didn't they leave earlier? What was it about the election of 1860 that set them off?

Willing to die, the boys of the South were, just to go there own way...

To protect their peculiar institution.

Willing to stand up to the Federal Monster outnumbered 3 to 1. Nothing noble there.....

Sad, really, rather than noble. Oh there's no doubt that they died nobly on the battlefield. But in the end, to have died for nothing.

In his 1990 documentary, The Civil War, Ken Burns quoted extensively from this famous memoir of an ordinary soldier in the Confederate Army, Samuel Rush Watkins. Published two decades after the war ended, Watkins' original book was entitled, "Co. Aytch" Maurys Grays, First Tennessee Regiment; or, A Side Show of the Big Show. Watkins was 21 years old when he enlisted in April 1861 in Company H of the First Tennessee Infantry Regiment. "He does not seem to have held strong beliefs on the issue of slavery, and he owned no slaves himself," writes the editor in her introduction. "He fought not to defend slavery, but to defend Tennessee. Watkins believed in the principle of states' rights." Watkins' account of the travails of a Confederate foot soldier is vivid, memorable and unpretentious.

Then why didn't they leave earlier? What was it about the election of 1860 that set them off?

Get off it.

You know the history and you know that the north and the South always had, and continue to have, disagreements about government and almost every other subject.

BTW, since you're a staunch northerner, I'm assuming that you are carrying the socialist banner for your northern puppet masters and if not, why not? I mean, you do believe that the north is always right, right?

Oh there's no doubt that they died nobly on the battlefield. But in the end, to have died for nothing.

And that's part of what the Confederate Memorial holiday is all about.

It ain't when you die. Hell, we all die. It's how you die and as long as there's one Southerner observing the remembrance of those Confederate soldiers that fought to defend their country then they will have not have died in vain.

It will only be in vain if you damnyankees are successful in completely revising the history with your northern myths and lies and poisoning a complete generation of American, and especially Southern American, children through your yankee propaganda camps, aka public schools.