>>>Apparently there were more southerners, black and white, in the Union army than there were in the confederate army.<<<
I never heard that one before. Do you have a reliable source?
Not sure now. The "from the hip" thing that I saw said 100K whites and 150K blacks. which was about equal to the largest number the confederates ever had in the field at once (on-paper numbers were higher). I'm not finding a good source for more reliable numbers, though. A state-by-state breakdown would be nice. I do know that a large segment of Union southern whites came from Tennessee. I'll keep looking...