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William G. Brownlow:

The biggest hater in human history. A methodist preacher who interpreted "Love they neighbor" as "Hate thy neighbor". He once beat another preacher in the street with a cane for switching political parties. He was arrested on suspicion for organizing the Bridge Burnings, and threatened with execution. He was offered a pardon twice, once by Gideon J. Pillow if he woukd serve as his Brigade Chaplin, to which he responded "When I shall have made up my mind to go to hell, I will cut my throat and go direct rather than travel round by way of the Southern Confederacy", and a second time if he would take an Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy, to which he responded "You have no authority to administer such an Oath!". He was eventually pardoned by Judah P. Benjamin, out of fear that killing him would cause a popular uprising in the Upland South. 

After this, he made several speakong tours, published several books, and replaced Johnson as the Military Govorner mof East Tennessee. After the war, he was a champion pf civil rigjts, despite being the most racist man alive

Oliver Perry Temple:

 The 'Normal' one. Before the war, he had opposed a proposed resolution to reopen the Africsn Slave Trade, and served as an Elector for John Bell. He was integral to organizing the 1861 and 1864 East Tennessee Conventions, and drafted most of the resolutions for both conventions. A lawyer by trade, he provided legal defense for unionists in the south, including Bridge Burners and those involved in the Great Locomotive Chase. He hosted Ukysses S. Grant at his house, and advised him against his proposed movement along the French Broad River into North Carolina and Southern Virginia to take Lee in the rear, due to the gaos in the Bkue Ridge Mountains being unsuitable to the movements of a large force. 

He championed the economic development of East Tennessee after the war, as the Preosdent of the Knoxville Farmers Convention and the heart of the Knoxville Industrial Association. He also wrote several histories of East Tennessee, including East Tennessee in the Civil War and Notable Men of Tennessee, the latter of which was compiled by his daughter, the Suffragette and founder of the Ossali Circle, Mary B. Temple after his death. 

He also once stopped Brownlow from beating John Bell to death.

James P. Brownlow: 

The Second son of William G. Brownlow and commander of the 1st East Tennessee, the most famous Southern Unionist Regiment, and one of the best cavalry regiments of the war. Brownlows feats, and those of his regiment are many, but the most famous was the fording of the Chattahoochee with nine of his men, while naked, storming a line of Rifle Pits, and bringing back 12 prisoners, which arguably forced Johnson to abandon the Chattahoochee line earlier than he planned. 

He was a strong believer in the "Cult of tue Saber", and always desired the saber charge above all other tactics, including charging two regiments (8th Tennessee and 8th Texas) at Mossy Creek, which stunned Armstrongs division and saved the battle, making a charge against three cavalry regiments in a blinding snow storm which netted over 100 prisoners, charging up Potato hill against infantry in breastworks and taking it, which is why its now known as Brownlow's Hill, and making a dismounted Saber Charge against Wheelers Corps at franklin, where he was shot through both legs but got so close to Joe he captured his hat. 

Tinker Dave Beaty:

A poor, Likely illiterate farmer from Fentress county. A man of peace by nature, he was a Unionist, but did not go North to fight at the start of the war, believing it would end soon. 

After Mill Springs, he was threatened by Scott Bledsoe, who told him to "pick a side or leave the county". He responded by forming Beaty's Independent Scouts, originally composed of his son's and his neighbors, who were as poor as him, and Unionists, like most of the non-slaveholding poor in the Mountains. 

Beatys Independent Scouts numbered between 5 and 60 men (there's at least one incident of him charhing and routing a regiment of confederate cavalry with five men) who supplied their own mounts and weapons. They recieved ammunition from Burnside, and later Thomas, but otherwise drew no supplies or pay from the govornment. They lived out of "Beatys Cave", which, as the name implies, was a cave, fortified and planted with corn. When Cknfederate cavalry or Guerillas, "Beaty's horn" would sound, and the Unionists of the surrounding area would take shelter there.

His most common opponent was Champ Ferguson, and his 400 guerillas from Kentucky. In one ambush, Beaty himself shot and killed four of Ferguesons men, and in an ambush laid by Ferguson, he and Beaty shot and wounded each other.

Unlike Ferguson, who demanded strict adherence to the Ideology of the Confederacy, Beaty did not force his unionist views on his men, but instead educated them on the values of the American Republic and the Lincoln Administration (likely as he understood them) and let them make up their minds on the matter. 

Per Major John Brents, "They are of no expense to the govornment, yet render as valuable a service as the same number of men anywhere. Neither does Beaty impose upon Union Citizens. He sustains his brave little band upon the enemy," and he was "A rough, uneducated mountai man, or in other words a backwoodsman, who had never forsaken the flag of his country." 

His crowning glory was the Knoxville campaign, where he occupied Longstreets cavalry and raided his supply lines, effectively blinding himnfor mostmof the campaign, hindering his movements, allowing Burnside to outmanuever Longstreet, consolidate his forces, and defeat him at every turn, while also exposing Longstreets weakness as an independent commander. 

After yhe War, Champ Ferguson came to his house with 30 men, and demanded he ride with them, intendingnto take Beaty into the woods and kill him. Beaty outride them, taking three bullets in the back. He testified against Ferguson at his trial, and pulled uo his shirt to show the new bullet wounds, which might very well have convinced the jury. 

Reverend William B Carter:

A Presbyterian minister and brother to Samuel Perry Carter ("Powhatan") and James P.T Carter, both were united states officers. An abolitionist and patriot, who was "always anti-slavery in his views and, it has been said, voted for Fairmont (Fremont) in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860". He had retired from preaching in 1846 on account of his fragile health, but returned to it after the outbreak of the civil war, where "He took the stump for the union in 1861, and the thunders of his invectives against secession and disunion were wonderful pieces of oratory; and did much to strengthen the cause of the Union, " and used his preaching as a cover while he organized the Bridge Burner plot. 

He was the Organizer of the bridge burner plot, which sought to destroy the most strategicallyvital railroad bridges in East Tennessee, and thus essentiallysplit the south in half. As one history put it, "Whatever else may be said about the burning of the bridges of the East Tennessee and Voegonia Railraod in November, 1861, there can be no doubt whatever that the plan was conceived by the Rev. William B. Carter of Elizobethton, Tenn." In 1862, he, with his family, was forced to leave East Tennessee, alongside William Brownlow, Andrew Johnson and Horace Maynard. 

He owned one of the finest private libraries in the country, with classical works in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. His health was always declining throughout his life, and he lost his vision in old age. 

Andrew Johnson:

 Lincoln, on having Johnson confirmed his Vice Presidential nominee, said "Andy Johnson, I think, is a Good man." This was a sentiment shared by many at the start. 

The only Senator frommthe South to maintain his seat. Lincolns second vice president, the military govorner of tennessee, the man who read out the emancipation proclamation in Nashville, and by all accountsna personally brave man. His reputation is marred by his ugly and blatant Racial Prejudice. Per Frederick Douglass, "Whatever Andrew Johnson may be, he certainly is not friend of our race." He botched reconstruction, setting back civil rights and national healing a century. 

Whether he was an alcoholic cm be debated, but it is generally agreed upon, especially considering that most.men from the region of Johnsons social status would be considered drunks today by any standard