But why was there a war for him to go to? Most soldiers in most wars, if they're not completely mercenaries or slaves, go to war for home and family and native land and an idea of freedom, but that doesn't explain why the war started.
What "caused" a war is a tricky thing. Why men fight has a subjective and personal answer as well as a more general reason which explains better why the war actually occurred.
"Most soldiers in most wars, if they're not completely mercenaries or slaves, go to war for home and family and native land and an idea of freedom"
Well. thank you very much for backing off of all the absolutist nonsense that has been present on this thread. Very refreshing. Going back in time, prior to an omnipresent media shaping perceptions, the hows and the whys might not have been clear until well after the fact. Or, never, if there's enough political hay to be made, as is the case with the so-called "Civil War" in the US. It's too rich of a lode of loaded symbolism for leftists in particular to ever, ever let it go.