[stand watie]

AND a "considerable number of" NORTHERNERS who also wanted to keep THEIR slaves as well.

did you bother to actually read my post #26????

slavery, once again (SIGH!) was ONLY important to the slaveOWNERS. hardly anybody else cared about the "peculiar institution", period, end of story.

over 98% of southern soldiers, sailors & marines were NOT slaveowners (in point of fact, their average GROSS ASSETS were less than US $ 25.00 in 1860! ours was a PEASANT REVOLT/ARMY!) and did not fight for the slave-owning minority to own slaves. this was particularly true of the 100,000 plus black Confederate volunteers! (if the war was to preserve/spread the "peculiar institution", what were THEY fighting for????)

free dixie,sw

[SedVictaCatoni]

did you bother to actually read my post #26????

Well, I tried, but your syntax really doesn't make it very easy. It's "chattel", by the way.