Southern Unionist
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In the United States, Southern Unionists were white Southerners living in the Confederate States of America and the Southern Border States that were opposed to secession. Many fought for the Union dur
Newton Knight (Mississippi), leader of the Knight Company and one of the founders of the Free State of Jones.
Josiah Dunlow - 1st North Carolina Union Volunteers, buried near Askewville, North Carolina
The American state of Texas declared its secession from the Union on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States on March 2, 1861, after it had replaced its governor, Sam Houston, who had refu
Anaconda Plan, Civil War
Governor Francis Lubbock
Gen. A. S. Johnston
Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood