Conservative estimates place the number of confederate soldiers from slave holding families at 30%-35%. Tha leaves 65%-70% of an army of 880,000 to 1,000,000 who had little to gain from slavery and perhaps much to loose. Slavery depressed wages much like illegal immigration depresses wages today. These men were fighting for something else.
Also there were an estimated 50,000 black confederate solders. What were they fighting for?
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