Right. The General didn't leave Virginia, except for Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Certainly he didn't spend time in Tennessee.
Poor southern whites weren't fighting to defend slavery or a Gone With the Wind way of living that they never enjoyed anyway. They fought, as one Southern prisoner told his Yankee captor, "because you're here."
The song is not a celebration of slavery or the Old South. It is about loss and destruction and living in the ruins of war.
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