Apparently you missed the part where I explained that it isn't "my heritage."
My family came to America around 1900, and they did not settle in a Confederate State.
I have no ancestors that fought in that war. I had no ancestors on either side of the conflict. I do not live in a Confederate state, and never have. As a matter of fact, I grew up very much pro-Union/pro-USA, and even attended "Lincoln" Grade school as a Kid.
I remember on "Lincoln Day" we all made cardboard cut-outs of Lincoln's silhouette.
About the Civil War I did not give a rip. It had nothing to do with me, and the first I really learned of it was in Jr. High School.
I didn't realize something was amiss until my best friend since high school (who happens to be black) was pursuing his History Major in college. I used to go over to his house to lift weight with him, and one day he told me that he had just learned in one of his history classes that Lincoln cleverly started the war.
He told me how Lincoln did it, and he told me details of which I had never heard. It was only a few years ago that I verified that those details he told me were essentially correct, and so the burden of evidence shifted my opinion towards supporting the position that Lincoln did in fact engineer the war.
It was only since last February that I started to realize *WHY* Lincoln would have engineered the start of such a horrible war.
It's always money. And now I know where the money came from, and now I know where the money was going, who lost it, and who gained it, and why there needed to be a war.
And every piece of it dovetails with the evidence.
But again, it's not "My" heritage. About the time the US Civil War was going on, my Ancestors were traipsing around Denmark and Russia.
Mine fought for the Army Of The Potomac. You haven’t got a dog in this fight.