Being the work was published one year after the Civil War concluded the details should be extremely fresh, unlike the rehashed neo-history being peddled today.
"Lowland Middle and West Tennessee counties supported disunion. The highland counties of the East voted to remain loyal."
It's really sickening so-called Americans would be willing to tare their own country to shreds for the sake of keeping men as slaves for profit.
"As the North Carolina governor admitted, the revolution belonged to the politicians and not the people. Nowhere in the South, did the rebellion enjoy the staying power to sustain itself in the face of reverses. When Grant and Sherman made the going tough, the Confederacy folded up quickly." Here is an elected Governor of a Southern state which as a state reluctantly joined in the rebellion, but the man is stating the truth, yet so many years later the pro-confederates of our era refuse to address the real facts and their real motives, which are un-American.
Like our nation is not confronted with enough major problems, some people are cemented to the failures of the distant past.
"But the myth of the Solid South stuck and sadly many Southerners react to any negative comments about the CSA like it was an attack on the whole region, motherhood and apple pie.
I realize more than ever before there was never a solid South when it came to breaking away from the Union.
Henderson County, Tennessee - Lost Tranquility: 1861-1865
Maybe the 'neo-confederates' should at least attempt to exist in the real world, not the forever 'lost cause'. .
Not as sickening as, say, someone who would see every man, woman, and child in the state murdered prior to placing a single limit on their political power.
Rather than concede to the State of Missouri the right to demand that my government shall not enlist troops within her limits, or bring troops into the State whenever it pleases, or move troops at its own will into, out of, or through the State; rather than concede to the State of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter, however unimportant, I would [pointing at the three state officials] see you, and you, and you, and you and every man, woman and child in the State, dead and buried.