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Loyalty and Loss Margaret M. Storey

Loyalty and Loss By Margaret M. Storey

Loyalty and Loss by Margaret M. Storey


Summary

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 Storey's welcome study uncovers and explores those Alabamians who maintained allegiance to the Union.

Loyalty and Loss Summary

Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Margaret M. Storey

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.

Loyalty and Loss Reviews

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

About Margaret M. Storey

Margaret M. Storey is professor of history at DePaul University in Chicago.

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NLS9780807130223
9780807130223
0807130222
Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Margaret M. Storey
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Paperback
Louisiana State University Press
2004-09-30
320
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