Rebels from NY?

[Kentucky Derby Cavalier.]

Can someone confirm this little story for me? This NPR article says five New Yorkers went South to fight for the CSA? Does anyone have anything on this?

" ROBISON: That's Ray Ball, a local history teacher. According to him, townsfolk gathered at the schoolhouse just after war broke out. After a rowdy debate, they voted 80 to 45 to secede from the Union. Shortly after, Ball says, five local men headed south and joined the Confederate Army."

N.Y. Town Still Uncertain Why It Left The Union

The hamlet of Town Line, N.Y., voted to secede from the Union during the Civil War. People in this tiny town are very proud of it. In fact, firefighters still wear Confederate insignias on their uniforms. The town is marking the 150th anniversary of its secession — and dragging out old artifacts...

www.npr.org

 

[leftyhunter]

Can someone confirm this little story for me? This NPR article says five New Yorkers went South to fight for the CSA? Does anyone have anything on this?

" ROBISON: That's Ray Ball, a local history teacher. According to him, townsfolk gathered at the schoolhouse just after war broke out. After a rowdy debate, they voted 80 to 45 to secede from the Union. Shortly after, Ball says, five local men headed south and joined the Confederate Army."

N.Y. Town Still Uncertain Why It Left The Union

The hamlet of Town Line, N.Y., voted to secede from the Union during the Civil War. People in this tiny town are very proud of it. In fact, firefighters still wear Confederate insignias on their uniforms. The town is marking the 150th anniversary of its secession — and dragging out old artifacts...

www.npr.org

It's certainly plausable. Northern men did volunteer to fight for the Confederacy. Unfortunately for the Confederacy not nearly enough to offset the 104 k Southern white men who enlisted in the Union Army.
Leftyhunter

 

[Kentucky Derby Cavalier.]

It's certainly plausable. Northern men did volunteer to fight for the Confederacy. Unfortunately for the Confederacy not nearly enough to offset the 104 k Southern white men who enlisted in the Union Army.
Leftyhunter

Iv'e said it before, but this topic is very interesting to me. I would love to see someone write a book about it.

There were Rebs as far north as Maine, so a few from NY seems very possible.

 

[leftyhunter]

Iv'e said it before, but this topic is very interesting to me. I would love to see someone write a book about it.

There were Rebs as far north as Maine, so a few from NY seems very possible.

It would have to be a labor of love or a PhD thesis. It's possible a book about Northern Confederate soldiers would be profitable . Maybe a movie could be derived from such a book but not sure if a major US film producer would produce it.
It would be an interesting project.
Leftyhunter

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

You know the thread on what we have to unlearn? I've always thought this kind of thing illustrates one of them, that any of this was easy for a lot of us. When you say out loud that some Americans were torn over which side to pick the conversation tends to devolve, we seem uninterested in anything but North v. South The End.

Read a long article in a PA newspaper ( made it a thread years ago ), where a government agent caught wind of meetings held here in PA, anti-Federal meetings. Held in a barn, PA Dutch farmers were plotting to kidnap Lincoln and they were on neither side. Agent hid in the hay loft, said he was never so intimidated by any group, ever as he was by them. This group of farmers felt insulated from the war, wanted to remain that way, disliked black people regardless and resented the draft so Lincoln had to go.

Point being that boy, the entire thing just wasn't as ' Us v Them ', North v. South ' as we may have been taught as kids.