[smug]

Which one of the two governors were the loyal man?

Ah, but there is the rub, loyal to what? The people of his state, or to a corporate entity called the government of the United States. The people of Tennessee remained loyal to the latter until Lincoln's call for more volunteers and an order to blockade all southern ports. They then voted themselves out of the Union. Brownlow turned against his neighbors and Tennessee as a whole.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Ah, but there is the rub, loyal to what? The people of his state, or to a corporate entity called the government of the United States. The people of Tennessee remained loyal to the latter until Lincoln's call for more volunteers and an order to blockade all southern ports. They then voted themselves out of the Union. Brownlow turned against his neighbors and Tennessee as a whole.

But the people of Tennessee didn't vote themselves out of the Union. The February election produced a strong majority against even calling a convention and an ever larger majority for Unionist delegates in case a convention was approved. But that didn't long deter the slavery loving politicians in Nashville The governor and legislature took the state of the Union in May in violation of the state constitution and the expressed will of the people. The politicians took it upon themselves to invite the alien Confederate army to overrun the state. They later held a rubber stamp election in June, the validity of which was very doubtful with the state in the iron grip of the reb army and Confederate state.

If you you like the political class thinking for and making decisions for the people, you'll love the Confederate States of America.

As for me, I favor our Union of Washington and Lincoln over the government for the pro-slavery politicians , for the pro-slavery politicians and by the pro-slavery politicians.