A flag should not divide our state (TN)

McCord Pagan
Friday, October 23, 2015 3:15 am. Updated: 2:26 pm.

... people may not know is that Tennessee did not join the Confederacy easily. We were the last state to leave the Union and the first to return. It took two elections for our residents to decide to join the Confederacy, and even then, our loyalty was not clearly defined ...

... Knoxville, and what would later become the University of Tennessee, was specifically thanked by the federal government after the war for our loyalty to the Union.

Grant was enthusiastic in his assistance to the university, specifically citing Knoxville residents’ sacrifice for the Union and “loyalty of the people of the section in which the university is located, under circumstances of personal danger and trials” ...

... Flying the flag in the name of our Civil War history reflects a lack of knowledge about not just the causes of the war, but East Tennessee’s role in it ...

http://www.utdailybeacon.com/opinion/article_9f72ffd6-7952-11e5-a5fc-0b74a05e1ef3.html