Those poor uneducated whites you pity are the descendants of those who died.
You must be ignorant to think only rich planters fought
You must be ignorant to think only rich planters fought
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No, it was really “A rich man's war and a poor man's fight”.
The point is that many of those who celebrate the Confederacy today would have been just as disdained (except as cannon fodder) by the rich landowners who ran the CSA as their forefathers were.