Because a soldier carries respectability as a full-member of his nation.
A black man in Confederate uniform would be a walking denial of slave status.
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Slaves.
The southerners viewed slaves as property.
the southerners viewed slaves as a good thing
The southerners were afraid that once all of the slaves left to go north for better jobs/treatment, they would lose money because they'd actually have to pay someone to work. They were also afraid that they would get treated badly and get taxed, etc.,etc., for trying to break off from the Union and become their own confederation.
Fully 3/4 of southerners did not own slaves at the eve of the Civil War.
Being a plantation owner was their profession. Nobody retired to become a plantation owner unless the came across a great deal of money as a plantation cost a lot to include a house and land as well as slaves. Most southerners didn't have slaves.
Southerners viewed slaves as property. The southerners defended this by saying that the Bible allowed for them to have slaves.
How many southerners owned 20 or more slaves
Many Southerners believed that slaves were property, and property cannot have a gun, fight, or kill people. Sometimes blacks did fight for the Confederacy, however
Confederate soldiers thought that they were fighting for the sovereignty of the Confederacy, and the right of white southerners to make their own choices and run their own lives (and the lives of their black slaves).
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