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The ACW was a race war from start to finish. Anything connected to the Confederacy is all about racial superiority.Same here, and in fact all of them that I've found so far joined later in the war and for different reasons, so far as I can tell.
- one was conscripted, tried to go AWOL at a certain point, was brought back and ended the war as a POW
- one joined a month before he turned 18, so probably a young man who just wanted to get in on the fight
- one signed up and got a $50 bonus, which the CS government was paying at the time, so he may have joined for the money
- not sure about the other two
All of them survived the war, thankfully.
And the fact that I'm finding next to nothing about race in these documents, apart from the occasional comment by a dedication speaker, while there is a great deal said about honoring and remembering the dead, demonstrates that reinforcing the racial order was not the goal of those who had these monuments commissioned and installed. They were not about race, they were about remembrance, and still are.
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