tried-adjuster movement whiteuse disgruntled farmers and disenfranchise african-americans into a new populace coalition in virginia, and that meant breaking with the traditional republican leadership, or the established republican leadership in 1880's. wilson took an unusual stand. most african-americans cast their fate with the re-adjuster movement, feeling that this could be a break from politics as usual. wilson was such a deeply committed republican that he was suspicious of the re-adjuster movement and especially suspicious of it because it was headed by william a home -- confederatene, a general who had been somewhat conform minded during this period. wilson, knowing what he knew about the battle of the crater andahone was the commander, could not see fit to win it -- join a party led by the "hero" of the crater. >> you said that 400,000 for the unionught side during the war. what was a comparable number of soldiers who came the other way? elizabeth: the way to answer that question -- northerners in the confederacy, in the seceded who -- rather, northerners who chose to fight for the co