RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 13, 2017 at 1:23 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 1:08 pm)johan Wrote: So you're honestly saying that most of those who fought for the south were absolutely against slavery, but as much as they were against slavery, they were even more against those no good rotten god damned assholes from the North who had the nerve to come to their state in an effort to end the slavery they were actually against in the first place. Is that what you're saying? Because that sure sounds like that's what you're saying.
No. I doubt very many Confederate soldiers were against slavery at all. I'm saying, and their own diaries state, that slavery isn't the reason very many of them fought against the invading Union soldiers. Most Union soldiers didn't fight to abolish slavery either. They fought to preserve the Union. Specifically to keep the Southern states as part of the Union.
More and more Union soldiers added abolishing slavery as one of their personal reasons the longer they fought in the war though.
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