ACW generals and admirals who could have gone either way

Anaxagoras

Banned
While Sherman had sympathy with the southern people, he had no sympathy with the Confederacy.

"As long as Louisiana is in the Union, and I occupy this post, I will serve her faithfully against internal or external enemies. But if Louisiana secede from the Genl. Government that instant I stop - I will do no act, breathe no word, think no thought hostile to the government of the United States." - William T Sherman, December 1860

Perhaps a POD could be the death of Sherman's first wife and his remarriage to a Louisiana girl.

Quite a few of the officers who sided against the region of their birth did so due to their wives.
 
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