I came across this reprehensible
Confederate apologist diary.
The author maintains that the War of Southern Liberation, AKA the "Civil War" was simply a money and land grab by evil Northern Industrialists (sounds like they have hooked noses and don't eat pork).
This bit of revisionsim deserves a response.
He was right about one thing: we don't frame the war well.
The war was misnamed
Before its liberation, the South was a feudal society.
Blacks were enslaved, and the majority of the whites lived under near serfdom.
If you were not a part of the Feudal elite, you had no rights.
In most of the states, you could not vote without title to significant amounts of land, and in some states, you were required to own slaves to serve in public office.
It was a un-American tyranny.
The antebellum South was a bad place, and a festering sore on American morals.
What's more it's clear from the correspondence of the folks who ran the confederacy that their motivation was about keeping slaves in their place.