… You get your news from Georgia and Virginia those are your people,” he said. “These people imagined East Tennessee as part of a larger social and regional Southern market. Their feelings were part economical, part cultural. The region’s pro-Confederate minority often lived along railroad lines, Astor said. “Generally speaking, more East Tennesseans were pro-Union. “Loyalty can change over the course of the war people switched sides,” Astor said. In Knoxville, ardent separatists and fervent Unionists lived on the same streets, attended the same churches and shopped at the same stores. Cities and families were divided in loyalties and actions. Still, some dividedīut it’s oversimplifying to say all East Tennesseans supported the Union. That loyalty was rewarded - President Abraham Lincoln named Johnson Tennessee’s military governor in 1862 and his vice-presidential running mate in 1864. senator from the South to remain loyal to the Union after his state seceded. Greeneville resident Andrew Johnson was the only U.S. Most were from East Tennessee, Astor said. Tennessee sent more white soldiers to fight for the Union than any other Southern state. While their neighbors and sometimes brothers fought for the South, some 31,000 Tennesseans joined the Federal army. They’d occupy the region through the war’s first half.
Isham Harris ordered Confederate troops into East Tennessee.
That state would have been loyal to the Federal government. They petitioned the Tennessee Legislature to let East Tennessee become its own state. Unionist feelings were so strong that after Tennessee decided to secede, East Tennessee leaders met at the Greene County Courthouse.
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