More nonsense. You most certainly accepted all the propaganda at face value.
I was raised up north and learned the same nonsense, but the facts don’t support it. The Southern states just wanted the Northern states to let them be. The North decided it was worth decimating both peoples to force a union on the unwilling.
The North, like the Russians, had enough men and material to ultimately overcome superior fighters.
Now, as a personal moral matter, had I had to choose a country in 1861, I would have chosen the North, not the CSA. The things I am pointing out are the facts, not the way I’d like them to be.
I forget....who fired the first shot?