{"id":356189,"date":"2026-07-09T06:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/the-unionist-latham-family-of-civil-war-montgomery-county-nc-renegade-south\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:04:21","slug":"the-unionist-latham-family-of-civil-war-montgomery-county-nc-renegade-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=356189","title":{"rendered":"The Unionist Latham Family of Civil War Montgomery County, NC \u2013 Renegade South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Victoria Bynum<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As readers of <em>Renegade South <\/em>know, many Southerners opposed secession and the founding of the Confederacy because of political, religious, or economic principles. Others came later to oppose the Confederacy after facing economic ravages and the threat of death on the battlefield. In North Carolina, a Whig political majority, large yeoman population, and several antislavery or pacifist religious minorities, including Quakers, Wesleyan Methodists and Moravians, all contributed to the state\u2019s strong Unionism, which held throughout the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As noted in my first book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unruly-Women-Politics-Control-American-ebook\/dp\/B00ZVESUMA\/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jOcMwt-jZWLPreCq-tUez4xp-Rg2m3Vo_adJtt2uoWCe6dn-QIVwGM-nfld6GRgil2rdTLSxQHqqeIclxa3huAyHO6-ZhVK463XjkjHTqKUKOqU0epO9PZvboMKHWvwBNkdhVBeMCEsZY4UxU8aOLua8A7dzXFY9876NczcfSzCZe0vVmbXDxF5vVmjeGunK.W7f7rvMlccX7be5ZsfeJCJpl5G30TWB-RJhUqCZ5b08&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=victoria%2Bbynum&amp;qid=1782404954&amp;sr=8-3\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South,<\/mark><\/a> <\/em>many \u201cAbolitionist and Lincolnite\u201d citizens were early on reported in the Randolph County area, which included portions of several counties but was centered in southern Randolph, northeastern Mongomery, and northwestern Moore, all \u201chotbeds\u201d of Unionism and desertion. Known as \u201coutliers\u201d, deserters led a precarious existence in the thick woods that surrounded their communities. Of fifty traceable Montgomery County deserters and evaders, most were men between twenty-one and thirty-five years old, married with one to three children, and the owners of modest farmsteads. About a quarter were teenagers in 1860 who lived in households headed by widowed mothers. For the most part, these were struggling farm families bonded by kinship and religion<strong>. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010, I expanded my research on Southern Unionist families in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Long-Shadow-Civil-War-Southern-ebook\/dp\/B00LPMJ0N0\/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jOcMwt-jZWLPreCq-tUez4xp-Rg2m3Vo_adJtt2uoWCe6dn-QIVwGM-nfld6GRgil2rdTLSxQHqqeIclxa3huAyHO6-ZhVK463XjkjHTqKUKOqU0epO9PZvboMKHWvwBNkdhVBeMCEsZY4UxU8aOLua8A7dzXFY9876NczcfSzCZe0vVmbXDxF5vVmjeGunK.W7f7rvMlccX7be5ZsfeJCJpl5G30TWB-RJhUqCZ5b08&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=victoria+bynum&amp;qid=1782404954&amp;sr=8-4\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The Long Shadow of the Civil War.<\/mark><\/a> <\/em>At the same time, I recounted many of North Carolina\u2019s Unionist stories on this blog, including about the <a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/08\/southerners-against-slavery-wesleyan-methodists-in-montgomery-county-north-carolina\/\">Wesleyan Methodist Hulin\/Moore family<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/12\/kill-or-be-killed-bill-owenss-guerrilla-war\/\">Bill Owens,<\/a> leader of a deserter band that terrorized the region\u2019s pro-Confederate community, and the plight of <a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/22\/white-farm-women-protest-confederate-abuse-the-north-carolina-civil-war-home-front\/\">Unionist women<\/a>. Most Unionists, however, were mindful of being arrested, tortured, or executed and kept a low profile, appearing only fleetingly in public records. In this essay, I focus on one such family: the Lathams of Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1860, Harvey Latham was a 25-year-old farmer with combined real and personal property valued at $325. Two years earlier, he had married Amy Nichols, a young woman from his community. The following year, the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Lon. Like most rural families of the antebellum South, the Lathams were not literate, nor did they use enslaved labor. As their parents did before them, they produced most of their own food and reared their children on land that they owned. On 12 April 1861, these arduous but familiar rituals of life were upended by the declaration of Civil War between the North and the South. Despite North Carolina\u2019s strong support for the United States, its legislators voted to join the Confederacy after President Lincoln called for volunteers to put down South Carolina\u2019s rebellious firing on Fort Sumter. On 9 September 1861, Harvey joined many of his neighbors in enlisting as a private in Company K of the 34<sup>th<\/sup> NC Infantry of the Confederate army. Almost exactly one year later, he deserted his unit.<\/p>\n<figure data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:4718710,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2026\/06\/25\/the-unionist-latham-family-of-civil-war-montgomery-county-nc\/&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9482\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/img_0878\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"3024,4032\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0878\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Harvey Latham&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg?w=739\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9482\" src=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg?w=768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg?w=113 113w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg?w=225 225w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0878.jpeg?w=1440 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harvey Latham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9483\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/img_0879\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"3024,4032\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0879\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg?w=739\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9483\" src=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg?w=768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg?w=113 113w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg?w=225 225w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0879.jpeg?w=1440 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amy Nichols Latham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harvey Latham\u2019s desertion plunged the family into the maelstrom of divided communities in which deserting men went into in hiding, while Confederate troops and vigilantes went on the hunt for them. Women from both sides of the divide were forced to take charge of farms and raise children alone. While many wives and mothers of deserters shielded their husbands from capture and complained bitterly to Governor Zeb Vance about Confederate abuses of Unionist families, Confederate women complained just as bitterly about deserter depredations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wartime court records of Montgomery County reveal arrests of many men and women who had never before been publicly charged with a crime. For example, on 15 July 1864, Harvey Latham, his brother James, and his brother-in-law, Gilbert Nichols, joined a gang of men charged with assaulting John Brewer, a stalwart Confederate, \u201cnear the highway\u201d, where they also took his gun from him. Hiram Hulin, the pro-Union patriarch of the Hulin family, served as a witness for the men\u2019s defense. That same year, Harvey Latham\u2019s brother Enzor was charged alongside several other men, including Hiram\u2019s sons, John and William, with robbing William Burney of several personal items. Court records show that several Confederate authorities retaliated in March 1964 by robbing nine Unionist men, including Harvey Latham. Ongoing attacks and counter attacks culminated in January 1865 when all three of Hiram Hulin\u2019s outlier sons, John, Jesse, and William, were murdered. Although Hiram identified Henry Plott as his sons\u2019 killer, Plott was never brought to justice.<\/p>\n<figure data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:4718710,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2026\/06\/25\/the-unionist-latham-family-of-civil-war-montgomery-county-nc\/&quot;}\" class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/woman-farmer-civil-war.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6273\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/22\/white-farm-women-protest-confederate-abuse-the-north-carolina-civil-war-home-front\/woman-farmer-civil-war\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/woman-farmer-civil-war.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"350,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"woman farmer civil war\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A farm woman during the Civil War&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/woman-farmer-civil-war.jpg?w=350\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" data-id=\"6273\" src=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/woman-farmer-civil-war.jpg?w=350\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/woman-farmer-civil-war.jpg 350w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/woman-farmer-civil-war.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/woman-farmer-civil-war.jpg?w=300 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A farm woman during the Civil War<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/02\/tracing-south-mississippis-inner-civil-war-through-documents\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,685\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"civil-war-deserter-1861-granger\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Deserters of the Confederacy, 1861&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger.jpg?w=739\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"685\" data-id=\"6243\" src=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger.jpg 900w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/civil-war-deserter-1861-granger.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Deserters of the Confederacy, 1861<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9484\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/img_0146\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"934,1390\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0146\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Enzor Latham&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg?w=688\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"688\" height=\"1023\" data-id=\"9484\" src=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg?w=688\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg?w=688 688w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg?w=101 101w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg?w=202 202w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0146.jpeg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Enzor Latham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As early as August 1864 the inner civil war that raged throughout the Randolph County area prompted one militia officer to exclaim, \u201cthe women is as bad as the men down here.\u201d As the Civil War approached its end, women\u2019s retaliation against Montgomery County\u2019s Confederate elite increased even more. On 27 January 1865, just days after Confederates killed the Hulin brothers, <a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/04\/renegade-women\/\">Martha Sheets<\/a> was arrested for threatening to enlist deserters to punish Sheriff Aaron Sanders, one of the county\u2019s richest men, unless he provided her family with four bushels of grain. Martha\u2019s threat against the Sheriff was no isolated case. On 1 May 1865, ten women from the same community, including Harvey Latham\u2019s wife Amy and Amy\u2019s sister, Ally Nichols, rioted \u201cwith sticks, staves, &amp; clubs\u201d at Sheriff Sanders\u2019 flour mill. \u00a0Like Martha, the women were promptly arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just months before the war\u2019s end, Emsley Beckerdite, a Randolph County justice of the peace, implored newspaper editor M. S. Robins to consider whether \u201cthe people, the bone and sinew of this once great country, were ever legitimately consulted on the question of secession\u201d. Although Robins\u2019 response to Beckerdite is unknown, history has answered his question. In waging a war to save slavery from extinction under the shield of constitutional authority, the Confederacy devastated the lives of innumerable families of farmers and laborers. The people fought back with a vengeance, hastening the fall of the Confederacy and with it, the institution of slavery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victoria Bynum As readers of Renegade South know, many Southerners opposed secession and the founding of the Confederacy because of political, religious, or economic principles. Others came later to oppose the Confederacy after facing economic ravages and the threat of death on the battlefield. In North Carolina, a Whig political majority, large yeoman population, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[17697,15275,730,89486,10846,16425,6658,177414,3739],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-356189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","tag-civil","tag-county","tag-family","tag-latham","tag-montgomery","tag-renegade","tag-south","tag-unionist","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Unionist Latham Family of Civil War Montgomery County, NC \u2013 Renegade South - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=356189\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Unionist Latham Family of Civil War Montgomery County, NC \u2013 Renegade South - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Victoria Bynum As readers of Renegade South know, many Southerners opposed secession and the founding of the Confederacy because of political, religious, or economic principles. 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