Nope, just going by what folks actually said at the time. A near-universal theme among folks from the South here is to MINIMIZE the role of slavery when in reality our entire friggin' nation had been wrestling with the issue ever since '76.
I suppose you have never read any of C. Van Woodward's work on the Civil War and the South have you? Particularly his chapter on the North and their war aims.
Of course he is not widely available on Wikipedia.
