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You missed my point. Which was that the South was growing to believe that Slavery was just as horrible as the North claimed it was.
Yes, and William Lloyd Garrison just completed a highly successful speaking tour of the South in 1860.

The Civil War began a century and a half ago. Family members on both sides perished in the conflict. My mother told me that in the 1930s , having heard on and on about the Civil War from her parents’ and grandparents’ generations, she decided she wasn’t going to fight the Civil War again.

I will agree with you that nearly all the foot soldiers in the Confederate Army were fighting to defend their home territories, not to preserve slavery. Those who engineered secession did not have the same motivations as those who became foot soldiers. In any event, I have read extensively on the Civil War, and you are as likely to change my mind as I am to change yours: not very much.