[NavyCanDo]

As only a small percentage of the men and boys fighting for the South owned any slaves or had any use for them, I don’t see how offering them slaves as a bribe would work.

[JamesP81]

As only a small percentage of the men and boys fighting for the South owned any slaves or had any use for them, I don’t see how offering them slaves as a bribe would work.

Most soldiers in the confederate army had no slaves or any land that one could work. They had no interest in continuing the institution of slavery and had nothing to do with why they were fighting. Most of them were fighting because there was an invading army attacking their towns. Slavery or not, most of them were determined to do their best to force the invader to a halt. Anybody would.