Loyal Mountaineers: “In 1862, when McTeer traveled to the Cumberland Gap, and joined what became the Third #TennesseeVolunteer Cavalry, the end of the war and its outcome was by no means certain. Had the Confederacy prevailed, he might have become an outcast – or even a #traitor – unable to return to his beloved mountains.”

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