'shoot ain't about no niggers, its about you yanks trying to tell us what we can and can't do'

Yeah, cute. That's paraphrazing one of Shelby Foote's regular Ha-Ha jokes. Foote, by the way, is, as he himself conefesses, NOT an historian.

And what were we trying to tell, em, Dan? That they couldn't break up the Union by armed insurrection and attacks on thegovernment of the U.S. at their whim over what they themselves described as the primary cause of secession: Slavery.

( P.S.- as wars are made by politicians and fought by poor folks, wouldn't be the first time that Private Whats-His-Name had no idea WHAT the hell he was fighting for. Vietmnam comes immediately to mind.)