cnelsen
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- Oct 11, 2016
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The institution of slavery was the cause of the war, but the men who marched off to fight from the south were, in their minds, fighting against an overweening hegemonic high-handed Yankee-run federal government. They were defending their states, which, at that time, commanded more loyalty than the federal government in both the north and the south.Very few Confederates fought to preserve slavery, Christ-hating bigot.
If they didn't fight to preserve slavery, then what did they fight for?