[Badeye]

‘If I lost a war for something as evil as slavery, I might find some comfort in attempts to wrap it in some noble cause too. But I hope I wouldn’t get sucked into believing it 150 years later and calling disbelievers ignorant. ‘

This is a perfect example of whats meant about ‘winners writing the histories’.

The average Southerner wasn’t fighting for slavery. It was a huge issue, no denying it. But your point of view seems to be based on every single soldier in the CSA was a planation owner.

That simply wasn’t the case at all.

[elfman2]

"But your point of view seems to be based on every single soldier in the CSA was a planation owner."

That's not my intention. All wars are promoted through patriotic or religious themes, some very elaborately and effectively, surviving 140 years later.