[XRdsRev]

I agree. I don't have anything but respect for the Confederate soldier who believed he was defending his home. I probably would have done the same thin if I were in their shoes.

That having been said however, the Southern Confederacy despite all the honor that goes along with it, does have the blemish that the rebellion was brought upon by a group of otherwise good men who let their passion for the institution slavery override their common sense.

Most Southernors never owned slaves but for good or bad, that rebellion was inseparably tied to the issue of slavery when those first seceeding states made it such a prime issue in their Articles of Secession.

[carton253]

I don't know enough about the causes of the Civil War to comment effectively. I do know that slavery wasn't the lone or sole cause. It played a part... but there were other parts. So I don't think it is accurate to say that "otherwise good men who let their passion for the institution of slavery override their common sense."