... many CSA ordinaries were motivated not by slavery but by the right of the State to determine its own path...

And the path that the states in question had chosen was that of supporting and perpetuating slavery, of subjugation of Black folks free or slave and of bearing arms against the government of the United States.

Surely that is obvious as well.

What should be equally obvious is the many times the rank and file have not the slightest idea - or an erronious idea - regarding WHY they are actually at war - I give you Viet Nam and Iraq as two examples of many.