One thing that's always puzzeled me is the thousands of black men who voplunteered to serve in the Southern army.


A lot of them were freedmen and were fighting to suuport the original cause of the war, that of states rights to govern themselves. A very small percentage of plantaion owners were slaveholders and slavery itself did not become an issue until 1863 when mister Lincoln wanted another 300,000 conscripts and the people of the North balked.