For many years before the start of the conflict, the relationship between the Industrial North and the Agricultural South was mired in disagreements about the economy, politics, the westward expansion and slavery. The Institute of slavery was a complex moral and economic issue, its abolition a political undercurrent throughout this period in history. In April 1861, this festered situation developed into a full blown conflict. 

The vast majority of the Confederate soldiers were not themselves slave holders, nor had any vested interest in slaveholding. At the outbreak of the war, most southern men took arms to defend their states rights to secede from the Union, whom they saw as oppressor’s and to protect their homes from the invading North. 

These are the men we are attempting to portray through their daily life and tragic struggle.