Homegrown Yankees

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Homegrown Yankees by James Alex Baggett, 9780807136157
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  • ISBN: 9780807136157 | 0807136158
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  • Copyright: 6/1/2009

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Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refugees into Kentucky. These refugees formed Tennessee's first Union cavalry regiments during early 1862, followed shortly thereafter by others organized in Union-occupied Middle and West Tennessee. In Homegrown Yankees, the first book-length study of Union cavalry from a Confederate state, James Alex Baggett tells the remarkable story of Tennessee's loyal mounted regiments. Baggett vividly describes the deprivation, sickness, and loneliness of cavalrymen living on the war's periphery and traces how circumstances beyond their control-such as terrain, transport, equipage, weaponry, public sentiment, and military policy-impacted their lives. He also explores their well-earned reputation for plundering-misdeeds motivated by revenge, resentment, a lack of discipline, and the hard war policy of the Union army. In the never-before-told story of these cavalrymen, Homegrown Yankees offers new insights into an unexplored facet of southern Unionism and provides an exciting new perspective on the Civil War in Tennessee.
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