The bucktails were backwoods-types who could shoot -- unlike many of the North's urban volunteers and later draftees. Many of the bucktails were promised new Sharpes rifles -- some even got them.
You guys are so deep in denial there is no point in further correcting the record. One more time, tho just for laughs...
The south was the biggest backer of the federal power as long as they could use it to protect slavery. When all the demographics and economic development trends made the north strong enough to even threaten to acquire equal status on national affairs that mattered, you tried to break the Union by force of arms. We stopped you. Game over! Now get a life and stop the whining.
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