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The confederate flag represents American Southern history to me, and I'm a Hoosier. When we visit Dixie, we love the feeling we get from seeing that brave flag wave.

There were a good many young Hoosier and Illinois boys who voted with their feet and went southward to do what they saw as trheir duty to their country and their families. And don't forget that interesting derailment and wreck of a Union troop train east of Washington, Indiana, which could well have been the result of the work of either a Confederate raiding party or Confederate sympathizers.

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[Grand Old Partisan]

Yes, many Democrats in Illinois and Indiana did indeed sympathize with the Democrat rebels of the Confederacy. The wartime Democratc candidates for governor of those two states were paid Confederate agents, and the Democrat-controlled legislatures tried to withdraw the state militias from the Union Army.