A US Army Colonel talks about the civil war.

[Swampy]

He's the head of the USMA dept of history, and he's right - the civil war was about slavery, so let's not make any bones about it.

[hornet32]

Well it comes down to fact the South had a right to own slaves which under the Constitution they did they also had the right to succeed from the Union which they did , in the end slavery would have died out anyway as the South was beginning to industrialize , the black was no better off either way freedom meant they had to work for wages as Slaves they were provided for .