The information in this post was initiated by reading the book “Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy.” The book is not well known, but is available for free in Google Books because it is just old enough:
The book is by Albert Burton Moore, PhD from 1924. Dr. W E B Du Bois pointed out a very surprising passage in the book. That passage says the following. (Alert: the quote uses the “n” word, but within a quite, not by the author.)
It is with intense and multifariously proud satisfaction that he gazes for the last time upon our holy flag– that symbol and sign of an adored trinity cotton, niggers, and chivalry.
The quote, is from a Southern soldier who is intentionally insulting his own Southern countrymen. He does not actually want to fight for “cotton, Negroes* and chivalry, but believes that this is exactly what his fellow comrades-in-arms are so proud of. Although he is accurately reflecting typical Southern thinking at the time, it is not the way others would say it out loud.
The main point of including this in the bookBwould just be one of many more indications that the war was fought for slavery, not “states rights.”
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