Read my posts. Andrew Jackson threatened to invade South Carolinia for the treasonous act of secession. Central Texas (the hill country) and Eastern Tennessee provided more troops to the Union than to the confederacy.
Andrew Jackson threatened to invade South Carolinia for the treasonous act of secession. Central Texas (the hill country) and Eastern Tennessee provided more troops to the Union than to the confederacy.
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Well known facts. Poor southern whites understood that the war was being waged by the rich planters (with many exemptions) and the poor were fighting it. It's a complex issue but glorifying the Confederacy and its supporters both in the North and Sought makes no sense.
Now your lack of Texas History has undone you.I can't speak about Tennessee, but the Texas Hill Country provided very few troops for the Union, nor did Texas for that matter. One group of Germans who TRIED to join up, got killed for their pains at Comfort, Texas.
The ONLY Confederate state that furnished NO troops to the Union was South Carolina.
I've seen a figure of 2,179 Texans who served in the Union Army (Source: Lone Star Blue and Gray by Wooster). That figure includes some 443 Hispanics and 500 Anglo Americans (Germans, Irish, etc.) recruited in the Rio Grande Valley. Don't know about your knowledge of Texas geography, but the Valley is not the Hill Country.
The Texas German community, largely concentrated in the Hill Country, provided almost 2,000 men for the Confederacy per the following words from a plaque in New Braunfels, a German town in the central Texas Hill Country.
They proved their loyalty to their adopted country by fighting for the independence of Texas at the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto, by participating in the war between the United States and Mexico, and by raising twenty one companies of nearly two thousand men for the defense of the Confederacy.
I've seen a figure of 2,179 Texans who served in the Union Army (Source: Lone Star Blue and Gray by Wooster). That figure includes some 443 Hispanics and 500 Anglo Americans (Germans, Irish, etc.) recruited in the Rio Grande Valley. Don't know about your knowledge of Texas geography, but the Valley is not the Hill Country.
The Texas German community, largely concentrated in the Hill Country, provided almost 2,000 men for the Confederacy per the following words from a plaque in New Braunfels, a German town in the central Texas Hill Country.
They proved their loyalty to their adopted country by fighting for the independence of Texas at the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto, by participating in the war between the United States and Mexico, and by raising twenty one companies of nearly two thousand men for the defense of the Confederacy.
I've seen a figure of 2,179 Texans who served in the Union Army (Source: Lone Star Blue and Gray by Wooster). That figure includes some 443 Hispanics and 500 Anglo Americans (Germans, Irish, etc.) recruited in the Rio Grande Valley. Don't know about your knowledge of Texas geography, but the Valley is not the Hill Country.
The Texas German community, largely concentrated in the Hill Country, provided almost 2,000 men for the Confederacy per the following words from a plaque in New Braunfels, a German town in the central Texas Hill Country.
They proved their loyalty to their adopted country by fighting for the independence of Texas at the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto, by participating in the war between the United States and Mexico, and by raising twenty one companies of nearly two thousand men for the defense of the Confederacy.