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WI Andrew Johnson (or someone else of equally Unionist views) had been Governor of Tennessee in April 1861?

Would he have any chane of keeping TN - or at lest the eastern half of it - in the Union? Any troops sent to back him would of course have to cut across Kentucky, which would cause political problems, but if a Southern Governor had actually raise the flag for the Union, might Lincoln have felt that he had to send them, whether Kentuckians liked it or not?

How does the course of the western war go in Secessionism in Tennessee is scotched as fast as in Missouri? Could 1862 find Union forces threatening Atlanta? and what are communications like between TN and NC? Would there be any chance of a Unionist rising in western NC getting support from East TN?
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