Prominent Southern Unionists
- John Bell, but after the Battle of Fort Sumter he supported the Confederacy
- John Minor Botts
- Thomas E. Bramlette
- Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
- William Gannaway Brownlow
- Archibald W. Campbell
- William Cannon
- William Crutchfield
- Thomas Jefferson Durant
- Stephen Foster
- Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Thomas H. DuVal, John Hancock (Hamilton's law partner)
- David Hart
- Captain Dennis E. Haynes
- Joshua Hill
- William Woods Holden
- Joseph Holt
- Sam Houston
- Fielding Hurst
- Andrew Johnson
- Francis Lieber
- Montgomery C. Meigs
- Isaac Murphy
- Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson
- James L. Petigru
- Joseph G. Sanders
- Winfield Scott
- James Speed and Joshua Fry Speed
- Francis Harrison Pierpont
- Elizabeth Van Lew
- James Madison Wells
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