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.
Ah, so you can change your opinion according to what you want to believe. Sorry but I’m following this thread not just catching up to the last post. Some of you are changing your facts to fit your argument.
I would ask some of you to knock off accusing others of getting their history from Hollywood movies. Not that Hollywood movies don’t recreate the past and encourage the reading of history. If you check my tagline, you will see that after studying the Civil War as a youth, I now study medieval English history. And I don’t get my facts from The White Queen.