[Homer_J_Simpson]

Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show: A Memoir of the Civil War, by Sam R. Watkins

[BroJoeK]

These are the words of Sam R. Watkins, a Confederate soldier regarding "this time" in the Civil War:

"The Federal army was advancing all along the line.
They expected to march right into the heart of the South, set the negroes free, take our property, and whip the rebels back into the Union.
But they soon found that secession was a bigger mouthful than..."

Certainly sounds as if abolition was at the forefront of a Confederate soldier's mind, even as he projected it onto the motive of invading Yankees.