Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. Young, non-slaveholding farmers, who opposed secession and petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, enlisted in Union militias to Tennessees first Union cavalry regiments. They were denounced by most Tennesseans as renegades, turncoats, and Tories, and held in greater contempt than soldiers from the North. Homegrown Yankees is the first book-length study of Union cavalry from a Confederate state, presenting the remarkable story of ...
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Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. Young, non-slaveholding farmers, who opposed secession and petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, enlisted in Union militias to Tennessees first Union cavalry regiments. They were denounced by most Tennesseans as renegades, turncoats, and Tories, and held in greater contempt than soldiers from the North. Homegrown Yankees is the first book-length study of Union cavalry from a Confederate state, presenting the remarkable story of Tennessees loyal mounted regiments. It provides an exciting new perspective on the Civil War in Tennessee.
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