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
Union (American Civil War)
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The Union is a term used to refer to the federal government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resisted the purported sece
The Union had large advantages in men and resources at the start of the war, and the ratio grew steadily in its favor as the war progressed. In the chart, "cauc men" means white men (Caucasian).[image reference needed]
Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862.
An anti-Lincoln Copperhead Democrats pamphlet from 1864
Union soldiers on Mason's Island, later renamed Theodore Roosevelt Island, on the Potomac River in 1861