[Colonel Kangaroo]

There's a story that the Yankees captured a young Confederate soldier in Tennessee and asked him why he was fighting. His response, "because you're down here!!" The young man spoke volumes.

The Confederate soldier probably was from West or Middle Tennessee. If he was from East Tennessee, it would have been more likely that he would have welcomed the Union army as liberators from overbearing rule centered in Richmond and restorers of the ties to the old flag. Here's a typical East Tennessee reaction to the Union army that occurred in Bradley County as related by a man of Illinois.

"The Union citizens were quite demonstrative, some of them even bringing out flags which had doubtless been hidden for at least three years. Women swung their bonnets and men hurrahed for the Yankees and the Union, manifesting great delight."

[basque]

The Confederate soldier probably was from West or Middle Tennessee. If he was from East Tennessee, it would have been more likely that he would have welcomed the Union army as liberators from overbearing rule centered in Richmond and restorers of the ties to the old flag. Here's a typical East Tennessee reaction to the Union army that occurred in Bradley County as related by a man of Illinois.That was also true for Western Virginia and the mountain regions of Georgia and Northern Alabama. On the other hand, no army in American history did more with less thn did the rebs (remember Chancellorsville).