Hatred of Yankees helped keep Rebels fighting on. Eighteen-year-old Robert W. Banks worried about doing his duty. He seemingly had every reason to fight to preserve slavery as well. His father, a wealthy Mississippi attorney and planter, owned 78 bondspeople. When he wrote to his father after the Battle of Shiloh about joining the army, …
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