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You bring up the absurd idea that oh even though ALL of the source documents that list the declarations of war of the slave states was ALL about slavery, that somehow the soldiers who fought for those states shouldn't be judged to have fought under the cause of the states they represented.
You are ignoring the pertinent fact that the CSA had a conscription law.
You are all over the place. Every nation has laws demanding that men serve in the time of military conflicts if need be.
You don't see how with this line of irrational thinking you are undercutting the other fantasy point you were making about the motivations of the confederate soldiers to fight.
Now instead of fighting to protect their families and land, they were forced to fight by the CSA. LOL
Can you refute the veracity of the conscription law?
It's existence puts serious holes in your argument that the average confederate soldier was fighting to preserve the peculiar institution.
They were. It's a fact. Sorry.
Most southern soldiers were illiterate rubes from the sticks. They didn't know crap about "states rights." Hell, I'd be surprised if most of them had an education beyond a few grades, let alone civics. Civics would've been like calculus to those guys.
All they knew is that the big bad federal government was coming to take their "d*rkies away, and they weren't having it.
I know...Most didn't own slaves. Which only buttresses how dumb they were. Even if they didn't have slaves, they found some inherent value of having a race of people that were beneath even them (and they were the bottom of the bottom) and losing slavery would've meant a loss of status for the average poor southern laborer or dirt farmer.
States rights? Please. That's revisionist nonsense from people that were angry because they fought a lost cause for an institution that NOW embarrasses them. So making it about states rights makes the whole enterprise look more honorable. 9 outta 10 of them never even heard of the concept of states rights.
Besides, they started the war, and they deserved to lose it.
If the South wasn't mostly conservative, you wouldn't even be spouting this nonsense.
If a confederate soldier was conscripted, how do you come to the conclusion that they were fighting to defend slavery?
Do you really think that ignoring the conscription order was a viable option?
Is your argument what occurred at Nuremberg?
Are you being serious?
You have to be joking. If you argue that... ahh forget it. Carry on.
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