[Happy Rain]

Rich planters and politicians fought to preserve slavery—the vast vast vast majority of Southerners (like two of my greatgranfathers) fought for their states and homes against foreign invasion—and with evil war criminals like Sherman and Sheridan raping,murdering and burning their way across the South their cause,though a lost one,was truly noble.
Screw slavery-it may have been the cause of the war but it sure as Hell wasn't why the war was fought and the average CSA army veteran would have spit in your face if you had said HE fought to preserve slavery!!!

[Quiller]

Rich planters and politicians fought to preserve slavery . . . the average CSA army veteran would have spit in your face if you had said HE fought to preserve slavery!!!

Rich man's war, poor man's fight.

After the Emancipation Proclamation, large numbers of Union soldiers wrote home to protest that ending slavery wasn't the reason they joined, either.

A common misconception is that throughout the North, people embraced the noble cause of fighting for the liberation of their fellow man.

[Rearden]

Amen.