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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (38660)5/30/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Christopher, I understand what you are saying. I do think slavery was really bad karma for the United States, and has had a hugely destructive influence on our society, continuing into the present. And there were many "do gooder" and religious types in the North who sincerely supported the war as a way to end slavery, even though there may have been other, more complex issues for the politicians.

But what I was saying in my post is that for the mostly poor and unsophisticated soldiers in the ranks, I believe that they thought they were fighting about slavery. Is that true? Has anyone studied what they were being told the war was about, or how they perceived it? Soldiers usually have a very, very simple understanding of the conflict; that is how they are motivated to kill each other, after all.
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