I was on the road as it were these past five days and not doing blog entries as I was at the largest Memorial Day commemoration, the one in Indianapolis involving a famous race. This is why there were no posts the last five days.
I know there are many today who seek to besmear the good reputation of the Confederate soldier, but I am sure if you asked the rank and file what they were fighting for, the answer would be defending their homes and families and Southern Rights. Very few of the rank and file owned slaves, probably no more than 85-90% as they were the poorer Southerners. Officers were the ones most likely to have slaves as they were richer.
Those who say the war was fought only for the right to keep slaves by the South overlook Lincoln's promise to the South before the war that slavery would be allowed to continue where ever it already existed. Meaning that all they had to do to keep their slaves was to remain in the Union. Surely, that would be easier than fighting a war with a much more populous and richer part of the country and risking invasion.
Yet, They Went Ahead and Seceded. There Just Had To be Something More To It. --Old B-Runner
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