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Is this post meant to be a boast?

It's information and I suppose a boast if you want it to be but the point is that Tennessee isn't an example typical of the Deep South because its history is much different as are our demographics. Our school was a Union battery, Fort Sanders was a Union Fort -- during the Siege of Knoxville and Battle of Fort Sanders the Confederates foolishly tried to march between the two and up Fort Sanders. They were mowed down in one of the most lopsided victories of the war.

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In the brief period of 20 minutes of attacking, General Burnside’s chief engineer, Orlando M. Poe, wrote that he was unaware in the annals of military history where a storming party was so nearly annihilated. The Confederate troops sustained 813 casualties – 129 killed, 458 wounded, and 226 missing. Federal losses inside Fort Sanders amounted to only about 20 men, while another 30 were killed and injured outside the fort by Confederate artillery

When you use Tennessee as an example to say that 'see there were tons of white sharecroppers too,' you're being disingenuous and misrepresenting the South's collective history based upon one state that was very different in terms of both history (slavery, the war, etc.) and its population which even today is blindingly white compared to the rest of the Deep South.

That's a lot of post over such a simple question!
Yes, I'm familar with much of Tennessee's unionist leanings, and you fail to mention that EAST Tennessee was where the unionists were located. Middle and West Tennessee were pro-secession, and the state voted better that 2 to 1 to leave the union.
If you're gonna try to school folks on something, give them ALL the facts!