Over 2,000 Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta. Was Union Support in the South Actually Widespread? - History
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As the popular narrative goes, the Civil War was won when courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But an aspect of the war that has remained

This author’s book is about a unit of soldiers from northern Alabama. Southern Union sympathizers comprised about 5% of the Union Army. Mentally bookmark the data point that the South wasn’t entirely Confederate.

Although they were committed to preserving the Union, they weren’t abolitionists.

The author said during the interview that about 5% of Southern land owners were wealthy enough to own slaves. The vast majority of farms were too small and economically incapable.