Lee simply could not bear the thought of taking up arms against Virginia. The majority of people who took up arms did so out of a sense of being dominated by th

Lee simply could not bear the thought of taking up arms against Virginia. The majority of people who took up arms did so out of a sense of being dominated by the North. Even if they perceived that slavery was under attack, this was without evidence. To the case that slavery was not considered at risk, Jefferson Davis' nearly only strategy for financing the war was to appeal to the British, who overwhelmingly bought all that cotton. A mass propaganda campaign, led by Karl Marx, saw to Britain not supporting the Confederacy - they simply expanded the mercantile reach of the East India Company into Egyptian cotton. It's hard to explain what "honor" meant then. This was about what they called honor. Explaining what really happened is pretty difficult. It sort of doesn't make any sense.