Quote:That was the upper class of the CSA, the majority of the soldiers that fought in the CSA didn't hold slaves, never would have held slaves, and many of them didn't even agree with slavery. It was a war over the right to leave a union they believed they had the right to leave.

 

I pointed out earlier two of the highest generals in the Confederate Army didn't even hold slaves and did not believe in slavery, there was also Union States that where slave states.

 

Saying the Civil War was about Slavery is as accurate as saying World War II was about Jews.

 

When has any war been fought for the beliefs or wishes of anyone other than the upper class? When have the personal beliefs of generals on social issues had anything to do with the reasons for going to war?

 

You have an incredibly naive and revisionist notion of the realities of those times. You cannot simply ignore the official declarations of secession by many southern states, nor the controversy over the potential admission of slave territories into statehood or the rhetoric of anti-abolitionist rhetoric leading up to the genesis of the civil war. Yes, it was about states rights, and chief among those rights was that of states allowing their most affluent citizens to own slaves.

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