"They fought with courage and honor, not to preserve slavery, but because their home states called them to duty."

We must go back to the reason the South DID secede, to guarentee the right to keep slavery. The Lincoln/"Black" Republican party was the big threat in 1860-61 to that institution, the Southern leaders and Yeoman Farmers and many others knew that was a threat to their economic and social statis. Why did the John Brown raid cause such concern in the South?

Again, I keep asking myself should they have secedded when they did, and I still come up with the same answer, no... they were not propperly prepared.

Kevin Dally