Hello, I am trying not to get too emotional about this topic, after all, I am a product of a group of people who were enslaved in Cleveland County Arkansas. While I know there were a lot of Cleveland Co residents who did not own slaves there were certainly a lot of then who did . And just because someone was too poor to enslave another person or people, does not mean that he or she treated the colored person fairly or respected their rights to live in a county they worked and "slaved"over. Just because a person did not own slaves does not mean he would not have if he could have or that he did not don a white sheet when a black became too uppity or tried to act as a man. Just because they did not own slaves does not mean that they would not have fought so hard to keep the institution alive. We Black people know that lincoln was not pro-black but was probably just as racist as slave holders were. We know that the official reason why the civil war was fought was so the south could decide how they wanted to live. I am sorry I just really do not believe that if slavery was not an issue there would not have been this big rift between the two sides, no matter what historians and civil war buffs say. If we could ask someone living during that time what the south was REALLY fighting for I would bet that they would say to keep the status quo, to keep the free labor source and to have a place where white was right. By the way, I am trying to figure out why my ex-slave great great great grandfather was a confederate. (He received a pension too) His slave holders went to another troop so my theory that he went with them was not proven true. I am not trying to make enemies here. Just expressing myself. I appreciate this list and all the help I have been able to get from it and I hope that will continue. Cristal Simmons