The Great Slaver Rebellion of 1861 met a glorious and righteous end.
Descendants of the defeated don’t seem to like that.
As the old saying goes, they had a tiger by the tail. To keep making profits from slavery, they had to keep expanding or the tiger would have eaten them. Their only problem with Lincoln, was his opposition to expansion.
I try not to be judgmental of people when studying history. In my studies of the period and the disputes leading to the Civil War, I found that loyalty to the Union was of little concern for the small percentage of very wealthy people who faced the destruction of their way of life if slavery had been contained as Lincoln advocated.
They rebel leaders acted rationally (if not morally) from their economic circumstances and morals. I can rationally understand that, but sorry, I can't admire it.
I don't hate Jeff Davis, but I do 'disrespect' people today who ignorantly try to elevate him to some patriot status over some idiot notion of regional pride or perverted notion of states rights.
That is just stupid. Davis was no hero. He was just another actor on the stage.