Re: West Tennessee Unionists - updated monograph..
"The main theory that I have read concerning why approx 100k White Southern Unionists joined the Union Army was because they were poor or of modest economic means and they resented being conscripted to fight for slave owners that they never really liked in the first place."
So, they liked fighting for Unionist slave owners? Perhaps you are contending that 900,000 Confederate soldiers (most did not own slaves) "liked" fighting for slave owners. The majority of Tenneseans who served in the Union Army were from East Tennessee. Study them and you may your answer.