[macebowman]

And you mentioned the word “stupidity”.

Do you honestly believe that after Butcher Tarleton ran ransacking through here any Tories could have stayed? That is rich, really rich. Slaveowners—what, them leftover tories living in Appalachia had slaves too?

Why don’t you look up Fanny Wright. I guess those slave owning tories must have lost some of thier slaves to Fanny at the Nashoba Commune

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashoba_Commune

And when you done, well they must of been a whole bunch of overmountain men descendents among this group.

http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/military/pension.htm

[Colonel Kangaroo]

East Tennessee alone produced 30,000 Union soldiers and unlike the often reluctant Confederate conscript, these men were volunteers who risked much to defy Confederate despotism. This was the region of the Overmountain Men.

I do not see why it's hard to see the relation between the Revolutionary War Tories and secessionists. Both anxiously hoped for British soldiers to kill their fellow Americans to safeguard their wealth.