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in these States, and northern people who were down South for business or pleasure, if they expressed opinions in opposition to the popular political sentiments of that section, were at once warned to leave.
Hundreds came North immediately to seek personal safety, often leaving possessions of great value behind them.
Even native southerners who
believed thoroughly in the Union--and there were hundreds of such — were not allowed to say so. This class of people suffered great indignities during the war, on account of their loyalty to the old flag.
Many of them were driven by insult and abuse to take up arms for a cause with which they did not sympathize, deserting it at the
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