Exactly what I said! The Civil War erupted over States Rights. Anyone and anything that says otherwise does not know American History. I should say, UNREVISED American History.
Do some research and DON’T rely on Wikipedia.
Can you not read?
The issue of slavery led to disunion, and disunion was defended under the banner of “states rights”. That is, the disagreement over slavery led to secession, secession led to the war, and the South then defended its actions, while fighting the war, as “states rights”:
“As a panel of historians emphasized in 2011, “while slavery and its various and multifaceted discontents were the primary cause of disunion, it was disunion itself that sparked the war.”[3] States’ rights was entirely a matter in regards to the protection of slavery. The issue of tariffs was so unimportant that the groups looking for some sort of compromise did not even consider it.[4] Other important factors were partisan politics, abolitionism, Southern nationalism, Northern nationalism, expansionism, economics and modernization in the Antebellum period.”
How about relying on the people who were there?
"African slavery is the cornerstone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depoulation and barbarism." - South Carolina Congressman Lawrence Keitt, 1860
"What did we go to war for, if not to protect our [slave] property?" - CSA Virginia senator, Robert Hunter, 1865
"I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery—a soldier fights for his country—right or wrong—he is not responsible for the political merits of the course he fights in ... The South was my country." - John Singleton Mosby
"We have dissolved the Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel...I congratulate the country that the strife has been put to rest forever, and that American slavery is to stand before the world as it is, and on its own merits. We have now placed our domestic institution, and secured its rights unmistakably, in the Constitution; we have sought by no euphony to hide its name - we have called our negroes "slaves," and we have recognized and protected them as persons and our rights to them as property." - Alabama Congressman Robert H. Smith
Regardless of what some soldiers did or did not believed - the South’s stated goal was to fight for the right to continue of slavery. A horrific genocide that caused the death of millions and has caused generations of consequences that we still deal with today. The millions of slaves who were raped, murdered, beaten, and tortured would call the south aggressors.
This is not a debatable. The south was nice enough to admit it and write it down for us before the war.