re: (Other Side) Powdered Alcohol

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I hope my expression didn't come across as pointed only at the confederacy. The union was largely the same story as well.

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No. I get what you and jacketfan77 are saying. And I agree that "Rich man's war, poor man's fight" applies to just about every single war in human history.........

But, from the average SOutherner's point of view in 1861......NOT SO MUCH.....overall.

I think people forget that, or don't even know, that unlike today where politicians decide what is best for themselves and rely on propaganda to sway public opinion in favor of their evil deeds.........politicians of the South in 1860 didn't just decree to "the people" that the states were going to secede.

Instead, the people from each state elected representatives from their counties to attend secession conventions.... to debate and decide the course of action. IN some states, they just had a simple popular-vote, yay or nay, on whether to secede. Some states did both.

And if you hold that thought in mind, and then think about the over-whelming majority of the able-bodied men in the South…….mostly being the dirt poor farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, etc……….that volunteered for the Confederate army by the Hundreds of thousands........

Well, then it's a pretty hard argument to make that it was a rich man's war. Poor man's fight.