zombie84 said:

I'm pretty sure the slave owning southern elite sending young men fighting to the bloody death to defend their right to hold a human being as property are the bad guys of the American Civil War, and not simply guys with "a different point of view."

To be fair, that's not exactly what the war was about- that's more of a retroactive Northern interpretation that doesn't take into account state's rights and the fact that the original colonies never would have joined the Union in the first place if they could be forced to remain in the Union involuntarily. Slavery is indefensible but if it really were a war about slavery then what about the New York City Draft riots? What about Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky? Those look like northern slave states to me. So you see it wasn't so tidy like that.

Not to get us off topic:)