Kim, help me out here.

Ignoring the Templar sword and the randomness of this pic/post...
...what did the Confederate Army "stand for"?
In the rest of the world, believe it or not, the American Civil War is an insignificant stoush.
The pop-culture derived accepted version of events is that the Confederates were pro slavery and the Union Army was anti-slavery.
No educated person buys that simple analogy.
SO if the Union Army were acting out Lincoln's words to "preserve the union" then the Confederates must have simply opposed the United States. Nothing to do with slavery.
So what was their goal?
What was a Confederate soldier's motivation to kill his fellow countryman?
I think I know Lincoln's goal (and now I haven't watched the full video yet).