I hope Alex can be more educated and stop making such ignorant assumptions.

i just want to bully anybody with such a significant lack of self worth, as to choose to join a NJ Regiment

And expert from the Mississippi declaration of secession:

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove."

Here you will find a Primary Source of the declarations of secession from the United states of America by key Confederate States.

Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

The main intention for all of these primary states was their right to protect and preserve the Institution of slavery.

Please press Ctrl+F when looking at this document and then proceed to type the word 'Slavery' into the search bar at the top right. It will highlight all mentions of the word slavery.

The term Slavery comes up 38 times over 5 declarations of secession.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

the only good Confederate state is an Independent Confederate state

lol the southern cause was not about slavery lmao but their rights like to be independent.
it is lincoln who said that to encouraged the yankee soldiers to the fight to have a goal to defend but in reallity the south stopped to use slaves anyways they did wihout war too.
so it was never smth like "good peeps" against "bad peeps". but people still don't understand it sadly...

Let it be known that we seceded to preserve slavery.