re: How are you remembering Union Soldiers that died in the Civil War

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You guys can't really believe there was anything noble in the maintenance of slavery for one second beyond when it ended. It doesn't matter how many good people lived in the South and had no connection to slavery, that those with the power to draw so many into the war could not let go of the institution because of their own economic interests makes every single person who decided for the South to fight a wretched villain of the most terrible sort: a person hellbent on enslaving Africans, and willing to pay the price of countless people they didn't know to advance their own monetary interests.

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I think most would agree that slavery is the worst chapter of our country. However, our government didn't need the South to attack Fort Sumter for a reason to end slavery. It could have ended many, many years earlier if the government had wanted it to. Lincoln wanted to free the slaves hoping the freed slaves would flee to the north and join the war effort....which is what many needed. I have already posted where he revoked freedom of some slaves freed by a Northern General so he would not face mass desertions by the Northern soldiers.

Was the South a great and noble place considering slavery? no. But lets not pain the north and a bunch of generous soldiers fighting for the freedom of slaves. There were many issues the war was fought over. Slavery, certainly was one of them....but we were in the war for over a year before the Emancipation proclamation was drafted and signed. If the main cause was slavery, whey did they wait so long?