To the contrary. They hated black people with a passion bordering on insanity.
You might want to read this example about how the people of Illinois felt about black people.
Many people in the Union Army, btw, weren’t even Northerners, but Irish or other immigrants hired off the docks by wealthy people to take their places in the draft.
I have read that many were simply grabbed off the boat and enlisted into the Army without any choice.
Beginning to see a pattern here? One Tennessean said the war was a war of the few (wealthy people) against the many (the rest of us, Southern or Northern, white or black).
There is a lot of truth in that. It certainly set up the Federal government (and those who control it) as King in the land.
Sounds kinda familiar.
Same playbook the Liberals have been using since 1860.
DiogenesLamp: "To the contrary. They hated black people with a passion bordering on insanity."
You always have to translate DiogenesLamp's words from Democrat-speak to truthful English.
What DiogenesLamp truly means by those words is: "I, DiogenesLamp hate black people with a passion bordering on insanity, but since I'm a Democrat and Democrats always lie about such things, I am projecting my own hatreds onto Republicans that I don't know, never met, have no understanding of who or what they are, but who just must, must be evil, evil because otherwise who could I project my own wickedness onto?"
With Democrats it's always the lie, and the bigger the lie, the better.