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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Bon Vivant</strong> said:</div><div>I think the idea that most of the Confederates were unware that they were fighing against the US government, and thus commiting treason, is not true. I don't care how illiterate anyone says they were. You can't get hundreds of thousands of people to take up arms and risk their lives without giving them a reason, and I doubt that the CSA was some proto-police state in which guns were held to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers to make them fight.</div></blockquote> <br /> Also the notion put forward by so many Dixie defenders that most Confederate soldiers didn't own slaves and so had no stake in defending the system of slavery is so far beyond stupid it's astonishing. There were all sorts of jobs held by non slave owners that were directly related to slavery, as well as indirect enrichment due to the great wealth of Southern agriculture.
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