Original sentence: Supporters of this view rely on slogans, songs, and military banners as evidence that Confederates fought to preserve rights that the Northern states or the federal government intended to take away from them.This term is preferred by some who insist that the South went to war over the issue of States' Rights rather than to preserve slavery.To Southerners, this terminology paralleled usage of the term "American War for Independence
Edited sentence: " -- 8th Nov." Confederate Private Sam Watkins wrote in his memoir that “We believe in the doctrine of State rights… [w]e only fought for our State rights… [t]he South fell battling under the banner of State rights…," etc."The tea has been thrown overboard.1860, Charleston Mercury).For example, in discussing the war, A.It was the term used by John Baylis Lewis in his Reminiscences.... Even in instances where the term "States' Rights" was not used in context of a formal name for the war, the issue of "States' Rights" and the war were so inexorably mingled that the term "States' Rights" (or variations thereof) was incorporated into references and terminology pertaining to the War.Sparks, a Confederate soldier in the 9th Texas Cavalry, wrote in his memoir that "States Rights was the sheet anchor and boon of our fathers, the hope of the Nation and the cause of secession, and was defended by the strong arm of the South... in four long years of bloody war for States Rights and liberty.The Revolution of 1860 has been initiated.The War for States' Rights was another name used in reference to the War.Thus, to Sparks, Watkins, and many other Southerners, the War was indeed the "[War for] States' Rights.To Southerners, this terminology paralleled usage of the term "American War for Independence (c