Virginia Sen. Dick Black says no Confederate soldiers died fighting for slavery

[Pope George Ringo II]

11. The pro-slavery crowd didn't waver

But they really did vote against secession on April 4. Then there was the vote to send a delegation to Lincoln on April 6, and things went South (so to speak) after the Fort Sumter thing, some old-fashioned rabble-rousing, and Lincoln's April 15 call for 3 whole regiments to put down the rebellion which provoked the April 17 vote after things were already escalating. And we won't even get into West Virginia.

Call it two weeks, and they still invoked slavery. I concede it was thin, and I am cheerfully pointing out that the loudest voices are not the good guys, but the chain of events does clearly show that slavery may have been the foundation--but it was the issue of troops that finally pushed Virginia over the edge. That itty-bitty distinction is more than most of the CSA has. This idiot is just making too much of it.

Edit: "Oppression of the Southern slave-holding states" isn't too hard to read as referencing the call for troops, either.