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Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie
Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie is the
memoir of a Union supporter in south-central Tennessee. In it,
he chronicles in vivid and emotional detail the local tensions
between Unionists and Confederates during the Civil War South
and offers a rare first-person account of the guerrilla war
that devastated Western Tennessee.
Thomas Jefferson Cypert (1827-1918) was a staunch Union man
of Wayne County, Tennessee. In 1863, he helped organize the
Second Tennessee Mounted Infantry, a regiment of loyalist
Southerners enlisted to combat Confederate cavalry in West
Tennessee and Northern Alabama.
Tried Men and True is Cypert’s memoir of his
time as Captain of Company A, including his capture by
Confederate cavalry and subsequent daring escape, in which he
was aided by local Union sympathizers and slaves.
After the Civil War, Cypert served two terms in the
Tennessee State Senate, one of them during the heated first
years of Reconstruction, when Tennessee disenfranchised former
rebels and attempted to establish Unionist Republican rule in
the state. Cypert clearly wrote his memoir to defend Unionism,
condemn secession and rebellion, and support loyalists’
claims for post-war power through an account of their wartime
sacrifices. Never before published, the manuscript has been
preserved in nearly perfect condition by Cypert’s
descendants over the generations. This book is a remarkable and
engagingly written account of resistance to the Confederacy by
a group of southwestern Tennessee loyalists.
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