re: Civil War... States Rights or Slavery

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Most of my Confederate kin wanted to be left the frick alone. They didn't join the fighting until the damn yankees started sniffing around Louisiana.

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Same in the hills of north Georgia...my great grandfather and two brothers joined in the last year of the war as the Yankees approached. They were too poor to go and fight a war; they were trying to grow crops amongst rocks.