I have seen a number as high as 16,000 Confederate conscripts becoming galvanized, and there were several options. Tennesseans like Andrew Johnson, Parson Brownlow, and Horace Maynard toured Union Prisons searching for and recruiting men to fill the 59 Union Regiments designated Tennessee Cavalry, Infantry, & Artillery. Many were given the option to a. remain in prison on "loyal row" where usally if their wounds or illness would keep them from a fight there were given better rations and fewer restrictions. B. They could go west as replacements for regular US troops posted in the west or C. they could return south aas in the case of Gillum's Brigade fight against their old tentmates. East Tennessean's voted more than 3-1 to remain in the Union. In my view an entire region then its male citizens were conscripted against their political ideals. Andrew Johnson wrote to Lincoln in June, 1863, that "that there more loyal (to the Union) men in (federal) prisons than all the rest of Ohio and Indiana combined."