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 Thanks for the read!
I'm in MO, Dad's family is from the Ozarks.
It was a surprise to go back thru family history and find a great-great-great-grandfather who was born in MO and died in MS. Battle of Vicksburg. He died the day after the battle (Jul 5, 1863). He was 39.
He'd left his family in MO and gone to IL to enlist in the 120th. My great-great grandmother was his oldest daughter, and she was 5 when he was killed.
We had both Confederate and Union fighters in the family.
@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.
@Coctaanatis and we’re still suffering for that omission aren’t we. So many believe a false narrative and refuse truth when it’s presented. It’s a good thing that these stories get passed around, will hopefully make a dent at least.