I'm reading Battle Cry of Freedom for the first time and it's pretty funny that the attempted rewriting of history on Robert E. Lee was that he personally detested slavery and understood why it was bad but was too loyal to Virginia to fight against his home state like brother that is DUMB
If California was on the wrong side of the single greatest political issue of our time and that issue was the most abhorrent thing I knew existed, I would not be fighting FOR California lmao idiot
Lol just like Thomas Jefferson was anti slavery but had to keep slaves otherwise he might lose The Manor.
Ol' Jeff Davis started coming up with reasons it wasn't slavery almost as soon as the bullets started flying lol