[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.

[Bull Snipe]

They didn’t see it as an evil cause. At the time they thought the cause they served was justified. It is from a vantage point of 150 years later that we can make the determination that the cause was less then worth of their dedication.

[DiogenesLamp]

However the Confederacy sought to render us into two separate nations and had they done so successfully we would be a very different country.

As was Britain. Odd that no great harm has come about as a consequence of Britain separating into two separate countries.

Apparently separating into two separate countries does no lasting ill to anyone. Certainly not enough to kill 750,000 people to stop it.