Walsh: Confederate Soldiers Didn’t Fight For Slavery

“The men from the North thought of themselves as fighting to preserve the Union, and the men from the South thought of themselves as fighting to defend their homeland. And if you were to ask them, if you were to go back in a time machine to 1861 and go up and, you know, walk onto the battlefield — which I wouldn’t recommend — and ask any of the Confederate soldiers why they’re fighting, that’s probably the answer they would give.

“They probably would not say, we want to keep slaves. They would say something like, I’m defending my home. This is my home. Robert E. Lee famously decided to fight for the South rather than, you know, being a commander in the North, and he made that decision not because he wanted to keep slaves, but because, from his perspective, he needed to defend his home and he considered his home to be Virginia.

“It would be the state of Virginia, not the United States as a whole. That’s the way he saw it. That’s the way he thought of it. That’s the way most people thought of it back in those days. This is just the general understanding – that most people have understood for, you know, almost since the war was fought.” – Daily Wire host Matt Walsh.