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Virginia Confederate History Month: What about the Pro-Union South?
0 Commentsby Joan E. Cashin · 05/10/10
In the midst of the controversy this spring about the Virginia governor’s proclamation of Confederate History Month, there has been little discussion of the salient fact that not all white southerners were pro-Confederate. Commentators on all sides have assumed the reverse—that the white population was united in its support for the Confederacy.

