Here’s the Civil War history they didn’t want you to know
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A new generation of Civil War scholars is filling in what one commentator calls the “skipped history” of White Southerners who fought for the Union Army. For me, the emerging revisionist account of the conflict is personal. I have discovered the story of a great-great-grandfather who was threatened with hanging as a “damned old Lincolnite” by his neighbors in the Alabama mountains.
@Coctaanatis I know this already, and I also know that accusing somebody of being a "Unionist" was all it took for the Confederacy to seize their property and possibly hang them.
The Confederacy also persecuted Quakers and recent immigrants.
The Tennessee Union 13th Calvary was feared by the Confederacy,. 30,000 Tennesseeans joined the Union Army. Something similar happened in North Carolina.