
Loyalty and Loss
Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Margaret M. Storey(Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 30. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-8071-3022-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 uncovers and explores those Alabamians who maintained allegiance to the Union when their state seceded in 1861, and beyond. Storey's extensive, groundbreaking research discloses a socioeconomically diverse group that included slaveholders and nonslaveholders, business people, professionals, farmers, and blacks. By considering the years 1861-1874 as a whole, she clearly connects loyalists' sometimes brutal wartime treatment with their postwar behavior.
Reviews / Votes
"Storey vividly demonstrates that divided loyalties and home front conflicts were no less intense in the Deep South than they were in other parts of the Confederacy." - John C. Inscoe, editor of Enemles of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
469 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-3022-3 (9780807130223)
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Person
Margaret M. Storey is professor of history at DePaul University in Chicago.