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."

The Civil War was not all about slavery. First and foremost it was about states rights and the fact that the states in the north wanted to put an end to the way of life for the south. Simply saying it was all about slavery demeans the whole war.