The Americans don't seem to mind that the Confederate Army wore the color.

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In this rolling farmland on the night of Nov. 29, 1864, the Confederate Army of Tennessee let Union forces slip past.

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By the end of the war, a third to a half of the Confederate army had deserted, and more than 300, 000 Southern whites were fighting for the Union.

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Sherman then saw the Confederate army as it surged forward.

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Beauregard, a white general in the Confederate Army.

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The next day, angry at his mistake, Confederate Commander John Bell Hood hurled 20, 000 men at the Union army, by then entrenched in nearby Franklin.

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One hundred fifty years ago Monday, on September 17, 1862, the Union army commanded by Major General George McClellan met a Confederate force under Robert E.

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