A House-Divided

[Wild Bill]

Oh, Gene, dream on! You think that secession was not clearly stated? Why did all those nonslaveholders fight in the Confederate Army? I know that there has been an attempt to show that Lee's Army was filled with more slaveholders in the ranks that historians previously thought, but the average Southerner was more than willing to fight the Yankee invader whether they held slaves or not. Don't forget that slavery was more than a labor system. It was also racial separation system. This is why blacks, when freed after the war, bragged about the bottom rail being on top, and why the KKK had such purchase until suppressed by the army or until white and black Reconstructionists were suppressed. Read Charles B Dew, A;jostles of Disunion and Allen Trealease, White Terror