There were several regions or areas in the United States that were pro-Union even though thier State officially sided with the Confederacy.  They were:

  1. East Tennessee
  2. Winston County in northern Alabama
  3. Rabun County in the mountains of Georgia
  4. Ozark Mountains in northern Arkansas
  5. Hill counties (Jones County) of Mississippi
  6. Western and central North Carolina
  7. Western counties of Virginia