Defeats and deprivations contributed to significant attrition among Tennessee soldiers. At the war's end thousands were removed from active service by wounds, by imprisonments, or by desertions. Only a handful of the veterans confessed to military infidelity. In 1865, however, many were absent from their units on furlough, searching for horses, or, in what was probably a euphemism for desertion, "cut off from their companies."
... Among those who filled out the questionnaire only about 50% of the poor, the non-slaveholding yeoman, and the slave owning yeoman, surrendered with an active command. In the war's last Spring, 70% of the wealthy remained faithful to the Rebel crusade.
Fred A Bailey, “Class and Tennessee's Confederate Generation,” The Journal Of Southern History Volume LI, No.1 (February 1985): 52, 53.
... Among those who filled out the questionnaire only about 50% of the poor, the non-slaveholding yeoman, and the slave owning yeoman, surrendered with an active command. In the war's last Spring, 70% of the wealthy remained faithful to the Rebel crusade.
Fred A Bailey, “Class and Tennessee's Confederate Generation,” The Journal Of Southern History Volume LI, No.1 (February 1985): 52, 53.
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