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That's exactly what Rhett Butler said repeatedly in Gone With The Wind. Also Ashley Wilkes writes home to Melanie to say the same thing, after he's been in battle for a year or so (before he's captured and imprisoned at Rock Island). I'm talking about the novel. I'm not an expert on the movie, but I've been reading the novel to my wife a little at a time (to help her fall asleep) over the last two or three months.

All my life I had been taught that the North went to war to stop slavery in the South. I believed it until just a few years ago. After getting into discussions on the topic and trying to understand how the pieces fit together, I finally realized the pieces don't fit together. What we have all been taught is a narrative that hides the real truth.

Money was the root of that war, the same as it is always the root of war. We were led to believe this one was different. This war was alleged to be about the rights of man and morality.

Well it wasn't. It was about evil greed, but the winners controlled what could be said and taught, and so we all believed what they wanted us to believe.