re: Was the Civil War About Slavery?

Any time I read source documents it leads me to believe, at the head of state level, the war was about slavery.

But at the soldier level, which is the level that contains most of our ancestors, I think the war was about more than that. I think family, pride, preservation of life, and fear of Northern aggression played more of a role for the soldiers than preserving plantation owners desire to own other humans as property.