Executed for Suspected Disloyalty

100,000 white soldiers from Confederate states served in the Union during the war, mostly as scouts and anti-guerrilla troops in occupied territories, despite popular perceptions to the contrary. Only North Carolina contributed 10,000. Paranoia and the descents into extreme cruelty it may bring erupted throughout numerous locations in Southern states under circumstances where loyalties were considerably more divided than we've long been led to think.

For instance, seven white men were executed by hanging on October 1, 1862 in Red River, Texas because they were thought to support the Union. As they were at least given a show trial, they were truly representations of the Confederates acting in a pretty constrained manner. Soon after, 14 more people were put to death without even that.

By October 14, two people had been shot dead and 40 alleged Unionists had been hanged. Unionists were slain or ejected from their farms in St. Francis and Pope Counties in Arkansas the previous year. It should come as no surprise that guerilla warfare erupted in numerous locations throughout the western Confederate states, striking in both directions.