History Main / NobleConfederateSoldier

** Corporal Dawson and his men are looters, but they happily surrender to and then fight alongside the Union soldiers to get away from the zombies and never show any prejudice toward Rebecca.* ''Film/{{Shenandoah}}'': Downplayed. Many of the individual Confederate soldiers (especially Boy's friend Carter and Jennie's fiancé Sam) are highly sympathetic characters who just want to survive the war (the only explicitly racist character is Gabriel's owner, a civilian) and some of them are conscripts who don't have a choice about fighting. The only completely villainous Confederate soldiers in the movie are deserters. However, Charlie emphasizes to his sons in an early scene that fighting for the Confederacy boils down to fighting to preserve slavery, and none of the Confederates try to claim that they're fighting for states' rights.

* The majority of heroes in William Johnstone's western novels are former Confederate soldiers who believe in racial equality but have no guilt about fighting for the South. To a man, they believe that the war was about states' rights instead of slavery and rarely hesitate to say so in an unsubtle AuthorFilibuster monologue.

* The backstory of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is basically the Civil War InSpace!, with the Alliance as the Union and the Independents as the Confederacy (if the Civil War had really been about States' Rights, and not slavery). Malcom Reynolds (TheCaptain of the ship and ex-Sergeant of Zoe) and [[TheLancer Zoe]] both fought for the Independents and still believe they were on the right side. As the show is a SpaceWestern, they correspond to examples of ex-Confederates in [[TheWildWest Wild West]] stories, with any unpleasant aspects of the Confederacy conveniently left out of the parallel. In terms of their cultures, however, it's the Alliance that has more in common with the antebellum South, and from what little we see, whatever problems the Independents had the Alliance are much worse.