Wrong and wrong. Your cause was unjust because it NEVER professed itself to be a war of liberation for the slaves. Abolition was only incident to its conduct as a "war measure" and thus cannot redeem the true purpose of its conduct, a coerced union with economic interests at mind. Nor can it redeem the unjust way the war was fought including, among other things, upon civilians and noncombattants with full sanction from the yankee command's highest levels. A moral end is rendered unjust by a sinful means and a moral end that is only incident and secondary to the direct and primary end cannot supplant that primary end.
As for whipping us "real good," I need only point out that your side lost over 100,000 more men than ours did. Often in war, the side that loses the most men also loses the battle - especially when those losses are so huge as to dwarf those of the competition as yankee losses did. Only by having a larger population and an army twice our size did you succeed in winning the war, and then only after four long bloody years in which we consistently held of and repulsed larger forces than our own. Yankeeland got its pyrrhic victory in the end but that's about it.
it was nothing more or less than a war of conquest against a smaller,new & relatively poor nation.
your lads in blue, who died in the WBTS, perished bravely for a poor cause AND to perserve a union of the UNwilling.
free dixie,sw