<P> Historian David Goldfield characterizes books "such as The South Was Right" as: </P> <P>... explaining that "the War of Northern Aggression was not fought to preserve any union of historic creation, formation, and understanding, but to achieve a new union by conquest and plunder ." As for the abolitionists, they were a collection of socialists, atheists, and "reprehensible agitators". </P> <P> Historian William C. Davis labels many of the myths surrounding the war as "frivolous" and included attempts to rename the war by "Confederate partisans" which continue to this day . He claims names such as the War of Northern Aggression and the expression coined by Alexander Stephens, War Between the States, were just attempts to deny that the Civil War was an actual civil war . </P> <P> Historian A. Cash Koiniger has theorized that Gary Gallagher has mischaracterized films that depict the Lost Cause . He writes, Gallagher: </P>

Which of the following is not a way that the confederacy was like the north