Yeah yeah yeah, what do they know.
I've seen the recruiting posters that these Maine recruits responded to. The posters appealed to the men's innermost honor by asking them to end the horror of slavery, and respond they did...many or most to die on the battlefield.
So whatever intellectual arguments the high-up mucky-mucks may have had for prosecuting the Civil War, the cannon fodder from Maine were fighting and dying to end slavery.
By the way, aren't you supposed to give attribution when you copy/paste stuff like that?
Yeah, I'm sure that YOU know tons more than stupid old Trollope, Fisher, John Adams and George Mason. /s
from Maine were fighting and dying to end slavery.
LOLOLOLOL! Chamberlain (from Maine) said that most of the men he knew were NOT fighting the war because of blacks. Very few in the North cared for blacks. Didn't you see the post farther up on the thread showing how many northern states barred blacks from entering? And haven't you heard of the draft riots up North where numerous blacks were lynched?
(Most of the data I have given in this thread is from a book by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. They cite a bazillion original sources.)