
Loyalty and Loss
Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Margaret M. Storey(Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 17. June 2004
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-8071-2935-7 (ISBN)
Description
A previously hidden corner of history reveals that the Palmer family of Alabama named their children after northern Union heroes like Sherman and Grant rather than Confederate favorites such as Jackson and Lee. Margaret M. Storey's welcome study uncovers and explores those Alabamians who, like the Palmers, maintained allegiance to the Union when their state seceded in 1861 - and beyond. 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. Storey's extensive, groundbreaking research discloses a socioeconomically diverse group that included slaveholders and nonslaveholders, business people, professionals, farmers, and blacks. Narratives of their wartime experiences, culled by Storey from the papers of the Southern Claims Commission - a federal agency established in 1871 to consider the wartime property damage claims of loyal white and black southerners - 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
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
12 halftones, 3 maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-2935-7 (9780807129357)
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