[Pharmboy]

Interesting point that I, for one, was TOTALLY unaware of. Why were the descendants of the Overmountain Men Union-sympathizers?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Many of the descendants stayed in the mountainous areas of the state. This was always a Whig Party stronghold, and as also an area with little slavery, these two factors produced a region that never approved of the secession movement arising in the lower western regions.

And what I've found from our own East Tennessee family, all the Civil War descendants of the two Watauga/Sevier associates in our ancestry were either Union soldiers or very strong Unionist sympathizers.