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Congratulations on a meaningful, well-written dissection of the true causes of our great/terrible Civil War, now 150 years past. As a native South Carolinian with Confederate ancestors and an almost lifetime citizen of the state of Texas, it has taken a long time for me to accept the "real" truth. Even after sixty years of reading about that conflict, for me, it took the outrageous greed and disdain for their fellow beings displayed by the Wall Street bankers, corporate executives and their minions, circa 2008, that fully displayed the lengths to which men/women will go to maintain wealth and privilege. The Southern planter class, et al, under the banner of John C. Calhoun's "state's rights" mantra finally contrived the unthinkable, civil war, to preserve their privileged status, a "crime against humanity" if ever there was one.
As to most of the men in the ranks of the armies of the Confederacy, they were, in my opinion, by-and-large pawns - dupes - used to carry out the desperate plans of the dying planter class. They were, presumably, mostly non-slave owners who had been fed the "state's rights" doctrine all their lives. They went to war gladly to preserve their "rights." Matter-of-fact, a cursory examination of all our wars has led me to recognize varying degrees of duplicity in the causes leading to all our wars, some moreso than others. But, that's another matter.
Well-done!


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Denial is a "lie-al". There are none so blind as those who will not, cannot, do not want, to see. This text is about seeing with the same clarity as John Brown-a man whose moral clarity on this issue is, as yet, unmatched.
The support for the reasons behind the civil war and the clarity concerning the rewriting of history was impactful. The writers manner of dealing with specifics but also providing an excellent overview make the reading both insightful and provocative. A good read and one with spending the time thinking over.
this is a fine article, concise and crisply written, grounded in excellent research. the insidious myth of the lost cause has given us as much grief as the war itself. today we face the same kind of conflict between the comforting ideology that allows us to keep on doing what we're doing, however destructive, and the cold reality that requires us to change; so this essay is useful beyond its topic.
This is a very well written short piece. I only gave it four stars because I am a son of the South and it is accurate but hard to read for many who deluded themselves to believe in the Lost Cause version of events. There is no doubt it is an accurate version of what occurred; but I find it so difficult to understand why 350,000 Southern soldiers allowed themselves to be slaughtered for slavery. Hard truths are revealed..
I read this article because I have had several discussion with people about the causes of the Civil War and have always been amazed by the number that still cling to the Lost Cause narrative. This is a belief that is common even with those that do not sympathize wtih the Confederacy. The author does a great job of condensing down the main resons for the cause of the war in a way that can be understood and is hard to dispute. I especially like the parts where he explained what the motivations of Union soldiers were and the fact that slavery in itself is antiethical to the fundamental beliefs of this country. While I am sure that the people that most need to read this article never will, I hope that it does make some people question assumptions that they currently hold and look at those ubiquiteous Confederate monuments in a slightly diffrent light.
I like this, in that it breaks down the reasons that the various people in the war actually went to war. The interests for which they put their lives on the line are not their own they never are. I think that the thinking person should view this as a cautionary tale it is easy, even here in America, to get swept up in tides that offer no benefit to those who die. It is wonderful that the slaves were freed; it is beautiful to think of someone sacrificing their life for this. In reality, lots of northerners weren't all that keen on dying to free the slaves. The emancipation proclamation was hugely unpopular. There were desertions from the army upon it's release. It is just sobering to realize that the vast majority of men who died in the war died because a tiny percentage of southerners who owned slaves were willing to see hundreds of thousands die rather than lose their way of life, and their wealth and power.
As a student of military history I am continually fascinated by two particular conflicts in our history, World War II and the Civil War. I enjoy reading, watching, and studying commentaries on those two struggles. At this focal point in the 150 years since the battle of Gettysburg, I found myself reading David Von Drehle' s review Why They Fought The Real Reason for the Civil War.

Having seen Ken Burns' excellent documentary on DVD, this article reminds us of the origins that led to the focal point in our nation's history. Yet slavery is not new in our world history, going as far back as Egypt's enslavement of the Hebrews as chronicled in the book of Exodus, perhaps even before then. Von Drehle reminds us that with the formation of the United States, slavery was on everyone's minds back then, and it was brought to the forefront in the 1800s.

There is no way of knowing what would have happened if the Confederate forces had won the Civil War. Would we have become two nations, possibly multiple nations, within our own borders? Would slavery have continued? Or would it have resulted in future battles and wars in later years? The questions are endless. All we know is that without the Civil War, we would have not become the one nation under God that we were meant to become.

It's time to quit white-washing history and get back to the facts of what it really was, bruises and all. Slavery was not meant to be, point blank. That it happened is a painful reminder of where we came from as a nation, and a warning to the future of what must never happen again.
Congratulations on a meaningful, well-written dissection of the true causes of our great/terrible Civil War, now 150 years past. As a native South Carolinian with Confederate ancestors and an almost lifetime citizen of the state of Texas, it has taken a long time for me to accept the "real" truth. Even after sixty years of reading about that conflict, for me, it took the outrageous greed and disdain for their fellow beings displayed by the Wall Street bankers, corporate executives and their minions, circa 2008, that fully displayed the lengths to which men/women will go to maintain wealth and privilege. The Southern planter class, et al, under the banner of John C. Calhoun's "state's rights" mantra finally contrived the unthinkable, civil war, to preserve their privileged status, a "crime against humanity" if ever there was one.
As to most of the men in the ranks of the armies of the Confederacy, they were, in my opinion, by-and-large pawns - dupes - used to carry out the desperate plans of the dying planter class. They were, presumably, mostly non-slave owners who had been fed the "state's rights" doctrine all their lives. They went to war gladly to preserve their "rights." Matter-of-fact, a cursory examination of all our wars has led me to recognize varying degrees of duplicity in the causes leading to all our wars, some moreso than others. But, that's another matter.
Well-done!