There were plenty of good guys and bad guys on both sides of the Mason Dixon Line then and not much has changed since then.
A lot of people on both sides died in that war that didn't need to. They had no stake or nothing to gain by the outcome but wound up dead anyhow. A terrible outcome for them and their families. The war started over the issue of slavery. The boys that fought and died on both sides mostly didn't give a damn about slavery one way or the other. They were conscripted, baited by a sense of adventure or patriotism or in the Souths case, invaded by a foreign army. I feel sorry for the boys and the families and many of those stories have been passed down through the generations and are still open wounds till this day.
A terrible chapter of American history.
Yes well said
