[Bull Snipe]

I had relatives that served in the Army of Tennessee (5th Tenn.) and the Army of the Tennessee (7th Iowa). By the records of these men’s service, they did the duty that was expected of them.

[jmacusa]

Again, serving an evil cause. I am not personally condemning your family members. However the Confederacy sought to render us into two separate nations and had they done so successfully we would be a very different country. I'm not ignorant enough to think the war was entirely about fighting to preserve the institution of slavery or exclusively to end it although it certainly was a predominant feature of why the South chose to do what it did.