@Finn dAbuzz,
No frothing at the mouth here, Finny--that's your
métier. You were attempting to suggest that northerners were not fighting to end slavery, which, apart from being pure bullshit, is not relevant to the thread, which is about the Confederacy. Then you try a snotty remark to the effect that the conversation had moved on, but that was just you attempting to inject your typical reactionary polemic into the thread.
That southern heritage bullshit is all about white supremacy, and denial of the undeniable fact that the Confederacy was about slavery. No one was branding all southerners of a hundred and fifty years ago as evil. You seem to be the one with reading comprehension problems. I've already pointed out that thousands of southerners served in the United States Army then. There were eighteen regiments of infantry, seven cavalry regiments and eight artillery batteries raised in West Virginia, which had seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union. There were eleven regiments of volunteer infantry, eight regiments of mounted infantry, fourteen regiments of volunteer cavalry, two battalions of heavy artillery and two battalions of light artillery raised in Tennessee which served in the United States Army.
You're peddling bullshit and that's all you've done in this thread. No bitterness and no frothing at the mouth from me--just the facts, ma'am.