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True Blue - White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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True Blue - White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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During the American Civil War, thousands of citizens in the Deep
South remained loyal to the United States. Though often overlooked,
they possessed broad symbolic importance and occupied an outsized
place in the strategic thinking and public discourse of both the
Union and the Confederacy. In True Blue, Clayton J. Butler
investigates the lives of white Unionists in three Confederate
states, revealing who they were, why and how they took their
Unionist stand, and what happened to them as a result. He focuses
on three Union regiments recruited from among the white residents
of the Deep South-individuals who passed the highest bar of
Unionism by enlisting in the United States Army to fight with the
First Louisiana Cavalry, First Alabama Cavalry, and Thirteenth
Tennessee Union Cavalry. Northerners and southerners alike thought
a considerable amount about Deep South Unionism throughout the war,
often projecting their hopes and apprehensions onto these embattled
dissenters. For both, the significance of these Unionists hinged on
the role they would play in the postwar future. To northerners,
they represented the tangible nucleus of national loyalty within
the rebelling states on which to build Reconstruction policies. To
Confederates, they represented traitors to the political ideals of
their would-be nation and, as the war went on, to the white race,
making them at times a target for vicious reprisal. Unionists'
wartime allegiance proved a touchstone during the political chaos
and realignment of Reconstruction, a period when many of these
veterans played a key role both as elected officials and as a
pivotal voting bloc. In the end, white Unionists proved willing to
ally with African Americans during the war to save the Union but
unwilling to protect or advance Black civil rights afterward,
revealing the character of Unionism during the era as a whole.
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