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		<title>Remember&#8230; Marylanders were Southerners too!</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/remember-marylanders-were-southerners-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cenantua's Blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political sentiment of Southern Unionists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on classifications of Southern Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Maryland My Maryland"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maryland state song]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, before you break out in song with &#8220;Maryland, My Maryland,&#8221; just remember, the song does not reflect the feelings of all Marylanders in 1861. Many a Marylander can be classified as a Southern Unionist. With that in mind, I am going to redirect reader attention to a series of posts (begining with this one) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=507&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In search of James Lee Gillespie</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/in-search-of-james-lee-gillespie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cenantua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Southern Unionists who became Union soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Lee Gillespie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sistersville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William H. Gillespie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve brought him up in two posts (here and here). Some people hit the road in search of the graves of ancestors (I do that from time to time as well), but I spent a little time one day in August, on my return from Kentucky, looking for the grave of a Southern Unionist who 1) intrigued [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=503&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Turncoat Virginians&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/turncoat-virginians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cenantua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Southern Union soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loudoun Rangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Means]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When reviewing a Confederate unit history recently, I ran across a remark made by the contemporary author (not a person who actually lived during the Civil War) about the men of Samuel Means&#8216; Loudoun Rangers (see this link for an interesting history of the unit&#8230; strange to say, the author of this article also uses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=497&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Southern Unionist&#8230; Union soldier&#8230; is recognized in Alabama</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/black-southern-unionist-is-recognized-in-alabama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cenantua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alabama Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Union soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Unionists of Alabama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amos McKinney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Levin got the jump on me   but it&#8217;s o.k&#8230;. hat-tip to him (see Kevin&#8217;s post it here) about the story of Amos McKinney (1st Alabama Cavalry, USA) receiving a headstone recognizing his service.


Posted in Alabama Unionists, Southern Union soldiers, Southern Unionists of Alabama, Southern Unionists who became Union soldiers Tagged: 1st Alabama Cavalry (US), Amos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=495&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To the Southern Unionist Union soldiers of Henderson Co., N.C.!</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/to-the-southern-unionist-union-soldiers-of-henderson-co-n-c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cenantua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North Carolina Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henderson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Craig for letting me know about this monument! Click on the photo to read more from The Historical Markers Database page that focuses on this monument.

Posted in North Carolina Unionists Tagged: Henderson County, North Carolina, Southern Unionist Union soldiers      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=492&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The State of Jones, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer: A Review, part one</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-state-of-jones-by-sally-jenkins-and-john-stauffer-a-review-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>renegadesouth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mississippi Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political sentiment of Southern Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Works that focus on Southern Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethel knight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free State of Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john stauffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kenneth welch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Knight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rudy leverett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sally jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Unionists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tom knight]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones (University of N.C. Press, 2001)
http://www.Renegadesouth.com 
The State of Jones, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer (Doubleday, 2009), aims to please, delivering a stirring narrative, lively and passionate prose, and richly-detailed Civil War battle scenes. For many readers, particularly those drawn to Civil War battlefields, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=487&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April 19, 1864 &#8211; Operations against Unionists in Marion County, Ala.</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/april-19-1864-operations-against-unionists-in-marion-county-ala/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cenantua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alabama Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ninth Texas Cavalry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT TEXAS BRIGADE,
Tuscaloosa, Ala., April 27, 1864.
CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report to Brigadier-General Armstrong, commanding division, that in obedience to orders from General Jackson I left Tuscaloosa on the morning of the 19th instant in command of detachments from the Sixth and Ninth Texas Cavalry Regiments (commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Ross and Major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=482&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with the Confederate threat to Southern Unionists in eastern Tennessee (1863)</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/dealing-with-the-confederate-threat-to-southern-unionists-in-eastern-tennessee-1863/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cenantua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tennessee Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENERAL ORDER No. 4.
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
November 5, 1863.
The habit of raiding parties of rebel cavalry visiting towns, villages, and farms, where there are no Federal forces, and pillaging Union families, having become prevalent, department commanders will take immediate steps to abate the evil or make the loss by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=479&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A complicated picture of Unionists and their children</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/a-complicated-picture-of-unionists-and-their-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 03:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cenantua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virginia Unionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Heater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cedar Creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry W. Heater]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Southern Unionist parents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months back, I ran across this marker about the Heater family (at the Cedar Creek Battlefield/Middletown in the Shenandoah Valley) in the Historical Markers Database&#8230;

The marker mentions the fact that Caroline Heater was a Unionist&#8230; and a little more&#8230;
Although two of her sons died in Confederate service, Mrs. Heater, a native of Pennsylvania, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=475&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>James Morgan Valentine Testifies on Behalf of Newt Knight Before the U.S. Claims Commission</title>
		<link>http://southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/james-morgan-valentine-testifies-on-behalf-of-newt-knight-before-the-u-s-claims-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>renegadesouth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disallowed Claims]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jones county ms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Victoria E. Bynum
The following post expands upon the story of James Morgan Valentine, Newt Knight’s 1st Lt. in Mississippi’s “Free State of Jones,” posted last week on Renegade South, http://www.renegadesouth.wordpress.com. Like Hiram Levi Sumrall of my earlier post on this site, Valentine testified in 1890 and 1895 on behalf of Newt Knight’s claim for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=southernunionistschronicles.wordpress.com&blog=5109966&post=463&subd=southernunionistschronicles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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