![]() ![]() ![]() Small wonder that one Atlanta newspaper opined early in the war, “If we are defeated, it will be by the people at home.” As the war went on, the tide of sentiment turned against rebellion, as civilians starved and farmers had their crops and livestock requisitioned out from under them. Whole counties in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Virginia refused to leave the Union and seceded from the secession homegrown unionist militias fought guerrilla wars against the Confederacy throughout the South and as much as a quarter of the Union Army were Southern boys. It pitted fathers against sons, siblings against each other, and even wives against husbands.” It divided communities as well. A People’s History of the Civil War, 2005, etc.), “divided families all across the slave states. “Secession,” writes Williams (History/Valdosta State Univ. There was not one civil war between 18 but many-so many that if the South were to rise again, it would do so on only one leg. ![]()
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