The record simply doesn't support that.
Soon to be CSA congressman Lawrence Keitt, speaking in the South Carolina secession convention, said, "Our people have come to this on the question of slavery. I am willing, in that address to rest it upon that question. I think it is the great central point from which we are now proceeding, and I am not willing to divert the public attention from it."
Keitt's comments are typical; slavery was the most important reason for the war. Your statement is based in myth, not the record.
Keitt was later KIA at the head of regiment --- defending the slave power.
Walt
Yor reply: The record simply doesn't support that.
You are saying, for example, that the struggle over "states rights" had little to do with the civil war?.....
Well, OK,... have a nice day.