[Petronski]

I love watching outbursts nostalgic for the Great Slaver Rebellion of 1861.

[stand watie]

we all note that you STILL haven't answered the question.

i see two possible reasons for that failure to respond:

1. you really are clue-LESS about the motivations of soldiers

OR

2. you KNOW & aren't willing to admit that your thesis is FOOLISH, as well as FALSE.

which is it???

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[stand watie]

in the case of my ancestor, PVT Little Thunder Freeman, he was "a person of colour" who volunteered to fight for FREEDOM, for his tribe & for a NEW southern nation.

he had LITTLE of material worth. upon enlistment, he "brought to the war effort" the following (according to his enlistment papers): one black felt hat, two shirts (likely homespun or leather), a pair of trousers, a 14-gage double-barrel shotgun & a "good, young, red mule".

RICH aristocrat??? i think NOT. instead he was a FREEDOM FIGHTER, just as 99% of other southern fighting men were. = i HONOR his memory & that of every other dixie HERO/MARTYR.

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