You must have grown up in the South, they probably do not teach the history of who was in power in the South and who directed the show there and how the war most certainly was fought over the slave issue. This is not uncommon that an area where a hugely crimminal historical event is covered up in the education system...Japan never talks about its bloody attack on Manchuria, etc. and it is not taught in school.
Your other point that the common soldiers did not own slaves...look today at the soldiers in Iraq, they don’t own oil companies, or weapons manufacturing business, etc., yet there they are fighting for the oil barons and the weapons pushers, its the same thing, war is always fought for the good of those who are profiting behind the guise of a principle, the "common people" pay the price for the whole thing while the elite make all the money and get all of the benefit while taking none of the risk.
You must have grown up in the South, they probably do not teach the history of who was in power in the South and who directed the show there and how the war most certainly was fought over the slave issue. This is not uncommon that an area where a hugely crimminal historical event is covered up in the education system...Japan never talks about its bloody attack on Manchuria, etc. and it is not taught in school.
Your other point that the common soldiers did not own slaves...look today at the soldiers in Iraq, they don’t own oil companies, or weapons manufacturing business, etc., yet there they are fighting for the oil barons and the weapons pushers, its the same thing, war is always fought for the good of those who are profiting behind the guise of a principle, the "common people" pay the price for the whole thing while the elite make all the money and get all of the benefit while taking none of the risk.