Mr. Hodges,
Thank you for your thoughtfull reply. It is interesting indeed a comundrum that say one of John Browns sons could be a high ranking calvery officer with the 7th Kan USV and slave owners being high ranking officers in the 7th Tenn USV. Thats a fragile coalition right there. I could understand a slave owner who may not of vote for Linclon who figures that if the South goes to war it will lose so its best to stay in the Union and hope that Linclon keeps his word about not emancipating slaves if the South stays in the Union. It would be interesting to find out how slave owning Unionists particuarly in the Union Army felt about the Emancipation proclomation and the presidents decision to establish the United States Coulored Troops. In the same vein did slave owning Unionists realize has did many CSA officers that by 1864 slavery was not going to survive the end of the CW since so many slaves had fled to the north or joined the USCT.

A little off topic why did men from the hill country of Tn, Ar, Al, and Nc, join the Union Army but not Ga?

Thank You Again,
Leonard