Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Unionists” in year 1861, month August of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864:

...Volunteers, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Brown, and a party of cavalry of Capt. Mead's company of the Confederate army. The Colonel ordered the Confederates to halt, which was not obeyed. The Unionists then fired on them and killed three, wounded two, and took twenty horses, with their equipments, and seven prisoners, who were taken before Gen. Banks. None of the Federal troops were hurt. The e...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Unionists 665 40 1 0 0 user votes
Baltimore Unionists 84 0 0 0 0 user votes
Virginia Unionists 28 0 0 0 0 user votes
Theeast Tennessee Unionists 22 0 0 0 0 user votes

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