I never said that conscription wasn’t part of the Confederacy’s weapons. I said that southern boys were very anxious to fight in ‘61 - just look at the amazing photos of men lining up (well, pushing into) sign-up centers. You can’t have it both ways: that the South were a bunch of hotheads longing to kill Yankees and then in the next breath say they were forced to fight.
I wasn't really disagreeing with you.....but I am now. You can have it both ways. My point was that circumstances were much messier than hollyweird portrays them. Sentiments weren't monolithic. There were southern sympathizers in the north and union sympathizers living in the south.
There were rebels who fought purely for the opportunity to shed yankee blood. There were some who fought for some misplaced sense of pride (we are taught by the lost causers that the only thing that mattered was state pride so apparently there was no sense of nationalism). And there were many who fought because they were compelled to fight.