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You are probably the biggest liar on BGR. What I said was that the Soldiers who fought for the Confederacy were not traitors. A strong argument could be made that Jefferson Davis and those who were in the chain of command involved in taking Fort Sumter engaged in treason - but the hundreds of thousands of Confederate soldiers who fought and often died protecting their homes and families were simply doing what 99 percent of us would have done under the same circumstances. It is idiotic to argue that a poor farmer living in the deep South should have refused to fight along side his family and neighbors. Traveling hundreds of miles during wartime to enlist with the Union was not an option for most of those who fought and died for the Confederacy.

It is also idiotic to assume that the majority of Soldiers who fought for the Union were eager to die to set southern slaves free. In every war that the American men and women have engaged during our history, the combatants really did not have many options available to them.

You, on the other hand, have a choice. Your choice is to support the lawless, treasonous acts of ignorant thugs who could not pick U.S. Grant or Abraham Lincoln out of a line up. In my book, that makes you no better than them.

the idea that the vast majority of Confederate soldiers
were men of modest means rather than large plantation
owners is usually used to reinforce the contention that
the South wouldn’t have gone to war to protect slavery.
The 1860 census shows that in the states that would soon
secede from the Union, an average of more than 32 percent
of white families owned enslaved people. Some states had
far more slave owners (46 percent of families in South Carolina,
49 percent in Mississippi) while some had far less
(20 percent of families in Arkansas).
But as Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion point out in Slate,
the percentages don’t fully express the extent to which the
antebellum South was a slave society, built on a foundation
of slavery. Many of those white families who couldn’t afford
enslaved people aspired to, as a symbol of wealth and prosperity.
In addition, the essential ideology of white supremacy that
served as a rationale for slavery, made it extremely difficult—and
terrifying—for white Southerners to imagine life alongside a
Black majority population that was not in bondage. In this way,
many Confederates who did not enslave people went to war to
protect not only slavery, but to preserve the foundation of
the only way of life they knew.
in other words there words they was just trying to live the
american dream

https://www.history.com/news/5-myths-about-slavery