Hi, East Tennessean here. The thing that makes me most angry about my home state lionizing Confederate officers is the ignorance it displays of our state’s history and the political preferences of Tennesseans at the time of the Civil War.

Hi, East Tennessean here. The thing that makes me most angry about my home state lionizing Confederate officers is the ignorance it displays of our state’s history and the political preferences of Tennesseans at the time of the Civil War. https://t.co/4uIY2Ye25y

— Andrew Exum (@ExumAM) July 12, 2019

No one bothered to poll women or black folks on what they thought about secession, but in the case of the latter, we can make a safe assumption they weren’t too keen on living in a country created to defend chattel slavery.

— Andrew Exum (@ExumAM) July 12, 2019

Noel Fisher’s book is my favorite wartime history of East Tennessee https://t.co/KYFLPVqCLE and more recently, I learned a lot from @KeriLeighMerrit’s wonderful book on poor Southern whites in the antebellum years. https://t.co/EpkkgqvNMq

— Andrew Exum (@ExumAM) July 12, 2019