[WhiskeyPapa]

When the U.S. Army liberated Knoxville, Tennessee, cheering residents waved American flags they had hidden at risk to their lives and laid Confederate flags in the main street for their liberators to walk on.

That is indicative of how the slave power was able to drag their section into war. There weren't many slaves in eastern Tennessee.

The University of Tennessee band plays a flourish during football games based on "Rally 'Round the Flag!"

Walt

[Grand Old Partisan]

To give Knoxville's Andrew Johnson his due, he did own slaves and had campaigned strenously against Abraham Lincoln, but his loyalty -- unlike Confederates and neo-Confederates -- was to the United States of America.