Pfui! Stonewall was fighting for his own land and his familiar way of life, quite apart from slavery...just the way you probably would have if you'd been there, robomatic. Most southerners were not fighting primarily for slavery, they were fighting primarily for self-rule and economic and political autonomy. They were fighting against an invasion. That was certainly the case with Robert E. Lee. Slavery would in any case have ended in the South within probably 20 years or less because it was rapidly becoming economically unviable, so why kill hundreds of thousands of people over it? It was a handy emotional propaganda issue for the North, and had Jefferson Davis been a smarter man, HE would have freed the slaves in 1861 and let them serve in the Confederate Army too if they wanted to (and many would have). Are you aware that tens of thousands of northerners rioted in New York City and other places against the draft during the later part of that war and lynched every black person they could get hold of on the street, because they didn't want to "die to free the blacks"? There was a whole lot of prejudice against blacks north of the Mason Dixon Line too in those days, and there still is now. Matter of fact, it's palpable.