" the officer
corps, on the otherhand, was made up to the sons of great slaveowners, or
great
slaveowners themselves. They were clearly fighting for their way of life."

This is an interesting comment. Robert E. Lee, who immediately springs to
mind, as executor of his father in law's estate, was in the process of
manumitting the slaves at Arlington at the time Virginia voted to secede.
Are there references to the slave holding status of the Confederate officer
corps?

Richard Dixon

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