Homegrown Yankee

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Homegrown Yankee

Confederate term for a southerner who sympathized with or became a soldier in the union Army. aka: Tory

 

[donna]

Also known as"" home-made yankees. According to "The Language of the Civil War" was term used in west Tennessee, north Alabama and other southern areas for Unionists who supported the South. Page 147 of book.

 

[CSA Today]

Also known as"" home-made yankees. According to "The Language of the Civil War" was term used in west Tennessee, north Alabama and other southern areas for Unionists who supported the South. Page 147 of book.

Both Confederates and Federals derisively referred to these people as Buffaloes in North Carolina.

"When it came time to take to the field, the Buffaloes took to the woods."

Federal officer in New Bern, N.C.