"Rebels against the Confederacy: North Carolina's Unionists " Topic

"In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggled to build a new nation at the local level and maintain control over manpower, labor, agricultural, and financial resources, which Southern Unionists possessed. The story is not solely one of triumph over adversity but also one of persecution and, ultimately, erasure of these dissidents by the postwar South's Lost Cause mythologizers."

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Armand

Hmm… Interesting background there for some alternative ACW skirmish scenarios!

More overlooked then any other group is southern men that fought for the north.

I would agree BW1959 there were those who did not swallow the sweet tea when the South broke with the Union. Of course there were Southern sympathizers in Union states as well.

I also agree with Mr Canuck that there is some interesting war game potential here. Being from the Ole North State as North Carolina is called I have a keen interest.

I have always thought the Battle of Hanging Dog Creek would make a good skirmish scenario. I wonder if it's covered in this book.

Glad enjoyed like it my friend.

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Armand

Yes there were southern sympathizers in the Union (primarily the border states) but nothing like what the south saw, it was really a civil war within a civil war…Every southern state raised units for the Union army, to my knowledge no Northern state outside of the border states did the same for the Confederacy. It always makes me chuckle when the lost causers do logical gymnastics to try and show that there were "black confederates" when the fact is that large numbers of white southerners wouldn't even support the south (including my ancestors who fought for the Union).