armati wrote:Fought for states rights.
I know I know, you guys know and understand more than people that were actually there.
You guys should right a book,oops, do a u tube video.
There's been enough books written about the subject. You might consider going down to the library and reading one.
"Guys that were actually there" doesn't mean shit when the highest rank the guy achieved was 'corporal'. Men at the corporal level aren't even told what their lieutenant is thinking, much less what their leaders are thinking. They are lied to all the time, because if they knew that the war was just to make their masters rich they wouldn't go.
99% of wars are fought by guys who think they're defending their homeland. It's almost always a lie. It's almost always about the wealth or power of their political masters.
If you go to the actual source documents, the declarations of the seceding states, the letters and diaries of the confederate, they make it very clear that their intention was the preservation of slavery, plain and simple.
If you don't want to take the long walk down to the library, here's a very nice online article:
https://qz.com/378533/for-the-last-time-the-american-civil-war-was-not-about-states-rights/
Just a short excerpt:
The declaration of secession for Texas is perhaps the most dogmatic. On Feb. 2, 1861, state leaders published a defense of slavery that amounted to little more than a bizarre, quasi-eugenic treatise for white supremacy. “Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility [sic] and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people,” it begins, before taking a wildly offensive turn, even by the standards of the day:
“We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.”
Of all the state governments that published “declarations of the causes of secession” like these (some published shorter “ordinances of secession”), none mentioned the ostensible injustices of America’s tariff system. None complained of high taxes, or even states’ rights in a general sense. All, however, passionately pontificated on the necessity of preserving an institution of slavery; and that no such preservation could be maintained within the Union as it was then organized. Ironically, secession, and the creation of a Confederacy was the only conceivable way of maintaining the status quo.
(emphasis added)
- Lincoln was personally totes agin' slavery, which is also clearly stated in the very same letter you just quoted.
ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... 
