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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (347689)	1/25/2003 11:10:29 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There was also the resentment of giving the black man equal status with "real" people.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (347689)	1/25/2003 6:35:59 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Many people either dreamed of one day owning slaves, or just didn't want free slaves competing for a place in the University. No doubt there was some of that too. The fallacy is to assume that all Southern people were in lockstep with their leaders. Many able, eligible men stayed out of the fight until they were conscripted and forced to fight. Men of means hired substitutes to fight in their place. Some of these substitutes became bounty-jumpers, collecting their fees, then skipping out repeatedly. Some Northerners fought for the Confederacy, some Southerners fought for the Union. East Tennessee, although the state seceded, remained largely loyal to the Union and its people suffered terribly at the hands of vengeful Confederates. Some soldiers, when captured, changed sides and fought against their erstwhile comrades. Not to belabor the point anymore than I have, it was a big, complex region and the motivations and attitudes of its citizens were many, and it is not possible to accurately label them as a block.