1.  Of the entire Confederate Military and Numbers of Men under Arms, 90% DID NOT own slaves.  This includes the three most beloved Generals, Robert Edward Lee (who freed the entirity of his father's slave population upon inheritance of his father's estate), Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (who never owned a slave in his entire life, and spoke out against slavery, not to mention teaching blacks, both slaves and free, during his time as a professor at Virginia Military Institute, and during the war), and James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (who also never owned even a single slave in all of his life, spoke out against slavery, and supported giving slaves the chance at freedom if they fought for the South, similarly to the call to arms from slaves from such notable Americans as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison of the Revolutionary period).  Since less than 10% of Southern Soldiers owned slaves in the first place, it begs the question, "What were the Soldiers of the Confederate States REALLY fighting for?"  It wasn't to preserve slavery.

2.  Of the entire white population of the South, 75% DID NOT own slaves.  Again, this begs the question, "Why did the South Break Away from the USA, and why did they take up arms against the North?"  Seems slavery was fifth or sixth on the list, seeing that 25% or less of Southern Whites owned slaves.

3.  Black men freely and willingly took up arms against the North.  While some were coerced into serving, the inflated mubers of such as given out by the Rainbow Coalition and the NAACP are terribly egregarious of the facts and over hyped.  Black men -- wanting to protect their families and loved ones -- willingly donned the gray uniform, took up weapons, and made a stand against the Union Troops.  Most people don't talk about it, but the fact remains:  black men willingly stood up, stood a post, took the gray uniform and a weapon, fought, and died for the Confederate States of America.  Further, the vast majority of their white compatriots welcomed them with open arms (see point #1, and also read the thoughts of Confederate General Patrick Cleburn, an Irishman who strongly supported granting black freedmen and slaves the right to stand a front-line post, slaves rewarded with emancipation, and freedmen with the chance to free enslaved family members).

4.  Every single reason that the 13 Colonies fought the American Revolution against Great Britain are the exact reasons the South fought the U.S. Civil War....and, yes, for those of you out there who don't know and/or have never read nor studied the History of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers were fighting to preserve the institution of Slavery in the 13 colonies (later USA) due to the fact that, in Great Britain, public opinion was turning against Slavery.  Think about these facts the next time accusation arises against the South for their  failure in allegedly fighting to  preserve Slavery when, almost 90 years before the first shots rang out at Sumter, Slavery was one of the very reasons the 13 Colonies revolted against King George III.

5.  A little known fact, but in February, 1865, the South Emancipated all slaves in Confederate-held territory, under Executive Order by CSA President Jefferson Davis, enforced by Commanding General Robert E. Lee and General Joseph E. Johnston.  Yes, too little, too late to save the South, but, the fact is, the South Freed all slaves.  So much for the South fighting to keep slaves and slavery around.

6.  If the North was so Anti-Slavery Frenzied, why did President Lincoln NOT free the slaves in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware until 1865, when, in 1863, he Emancipated all slaves in Southern Territory under Union Control?  The four border states mentioned never officially seceeded and were (and are still considered by many historians to be) Nothern States.  Why then was slavery allowed to continue in these four states?

7.  Tenant Farming and Share Cropping were rapidly replacng slave-holding and slave owning as an Agricultural and Economic Trend in the South prior to the War.  It is a known fact that Share Cropping and Tenant Farming were far more profitable than slave owning, and many plantation owners had replaced slavery with Tenant Farmng and Share Cropping on their respective plantations.  By 1863, there were more Share Cropping and Tenant Farming Plantations than slave-holding plantations, and had the war never taken place, many economists and historians believe that by 1863 or `64, slavery would have been finished as an economic institution, and emancipation given outright as a matter of course.

These, friends and readers, are documented and verifiably recorded facts of History, oft overlooked, especially by people who don't bother to delve more deeplyh into the reasonings why the South took up arms and raised rebellion and secessuion against the USA.  If one merely digs below the crust of the facts of this poingant period in US History, it becomes easy to see that the South obviously stood for something other than merely wanting to keep men of a different color under the bonds of slavery.