[Colonel Kangaroo]

Texas saw interference from the North and resented it. Those 60,000 men who served from my state, had other concerns than slavery.

I'm not pinning slavery interest upon your cattleman relative or on the other 59,999 Texans in CSA service. I do think they were working against their best interest. A regrettable quality in many southerners was that they resented interference from the north more than they feared the tyranny and exploitation from Richmond. I guess it was better to be a 3rd class person in a southern confederacy than to be a free American is union with the despised Yankee.

[stand watie]

the last sentence of your #963(assuming that you are correct & you are, as usual, NOT correct) is (oddly enough) close to the TRUTH.

being out from under the boot of the DAMNyankee social/financial/industrial/academic elites, even at the great social/human/financial cost of a "long bloody war of attrition" with the north AND perhaps WINNING that war & living in "a small, poor, 3d world country" (as one former member of the "DAMNyankee coven of lunatics, etc" once called the CSA) is better than PERMANENT servitude to those DYs.

free dixie,sw

[TexConfederate1861]

Yes, that is about the size of it. And among many of us, the sentiment hasn't changed :)