re: University of Alabama system to review all building names, remove Confederate Army plaques

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Another note for those unaware East TN tried to leave TN and join the Union but was unsuccessful. Slavery was not supported in the area that was made up mostly of German, Scotch, and Irish families. Everyone in my family with the exception of one fought for the north during the war. Andrew Johnson is from there as well.

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It also wasn't viable. Too much rocky soil and too many hills with too few large valleys for big farming operations to exist. Same reason the region that became West Virginia wasn't supportive of the Confederacy and broke away in the middle of the war.