Loyalty and Loss - Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Paperback)

Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small loyalist population, mostly in the northern counties, that persisted in the face of overwhelming odds against their cause. Margaret M. Storey's welcome study explores those Alabamians who maintained allegiance to the Union when their state seceded in 1861--and beyond. Her extensive, groundbreaking research discloses a socioeconomically diverse group that included slaveholders and nonslaveholders, business people, professionals, farmers, and blacks. Narratives of their wartime experiences indicate in astonishingly rich detail the chaos and destruction that occurred on the southern home front. Storey considers the political, social, and military aspects of unionism in Alabama. And by treating the years 1861-1874 as a whole, she clearly connects loyalists' sometimes brutal wartime treatment with their postwar behavior. In extending the study of unionism into the Deep South, Storey sheds important light on the internal strife of the Confederacy as well as the nature of resistance itself.

General

Imprint:	Louisiana State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Release date:	September 2004
First published:	September 2004
Authors:	Margaret M. Storey
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-8071-3022-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900 Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-8071-3022-2
Barcode:	9780807130223

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