[Non-Sequitur]

New Orleans is in Louisiana (29.5% of families owned slaves) and the beef was no doubt transshipped to Mississippi (49.1% of families owned slaves) and Alabama (35% of families owned slaves) and Georgia (37.3% of families owned slaves) and perhaps on to South Carolina (45.5% of families owned slaves). So no, I don't see where they benefitted from slavery at all. </sarcasm>

[Restorer]

I always enjoy your intelligent posts.

BTW, perhaps you can enlighten me about something.

Most of the pro-North posters on this forum seem to be willing to recognize the great courage with which southerners fought, even to recognize that many, perhaps most, were not conciously fighting for the evil end of preserving slavery. IOW, we recognize that most southerners were good people led astray by their leaders.

However, many of the pro-South posters seem to be unwilling to recognize any decency or nobility, sometimes even courage or honor, whatsoever on the Union side. The war was entirely fought by the Union over such ignoble issues as a desire to retain tariffs or to destroy the South for having the temerity to reject northern predominance.

Why do you and I recognize that brave men fought with honor on both sides, but many pro-South posters don't?