Civil war itself is an obvious example of the possibility that loyalty may affect people and even the country. The south is abused by the North, many are leaving the union and preparing to form a new country, but some people do not want war. Even the Federal military commander wishes to avoid war. "So, I hope that all constitutional measures will be exhausted before being forcibly taken" (496).
For the nature of the union coalition conditions edited by the inter-Korean coalition during the civil war and reconstruction era, see David Brown, "North Carolina Contradiction: Reconsideration of Loyalty and Discontent in the Civil War". Paul D. Escott (Church Hill: North Carolina University Press, 2008), 7-36
Surratt stands at the boundary of a civil war dispute. After all, she is from the State of Maryland, a faithful state spanning north and south. As a child on a tobacco farm and then as a farmer's wife, Surat's loyalty tends to be the southern part and its slave. Her family has seven slaves. In 1851, her family-run farm was destroyed, and it is said that he lit a slave who escaped. Her house was used as a safe home for allies' spies when her public separatist's husband died in 1862. The death of a husband who received a large debt brought a series of financial disasters in Surat, which ultimately moved her to Washington DC and opened a dormitory in 1864. (This house has a sushi restaurant and a karaoke venue, historical sites on the national registry are posted)
In many ways, the revolutionary war is a civil war. First of all, most of the land war is done in the country of the United States. Next, about 20% to 30% of the population holds loyalty to the crown. In some places, faithfuls actively oppose patriots through propaganda, spies, military service with the UK, and sometimes uprising. The propaganda of royalists continues to plant seeds of objection among the wider population. Patriots continue to find faithful threats in front of their homes, actively calm their loyalties, arrest them and work to confiscate their property.