Follow this link to the column by Leonard Pitts Jr.

In it he quotes a colonel from the Confederate Army.

We went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery. Men fight from sentiment. After the fight is over they invent some fanciful theory on which they imagine that they fought.’ – Confederate Col. John Mosby

I figured that this piece helps complete my previous post, Confederate History: An Exchange