Loyalty on the Frontier, Or, Sketches of Union Men of the South-west: With Incidents and Adventures in Rebellion on the BorderFirst published in 1863, this book has the immediacy, passion, and intimacy of its wartime context. It tells the remarkable story of Albert Webb Bishop, a New York lawyer turned Union soldier, who in 1862 accepted a commission as lieutenant colonel in a regiment of Ozark mountaineers. While maintaining Union control of northwest Arkansas, he collected stories of the social coercion, political secession, and brutal terrorism that scarred the region. His larger goal, however, was to popularize and inspire sympathy for the South's Unionists and to chronicle the triumph of Unionism in a Confederate state. His account points to the complex and divisive nature of Confederate society and in doing so provides a perspective that has long been absent from discussions of the Civil War. |
Contents
ISAAC MURPHY | 15 |
JOHN I WORTHINGTON | 25 |
THIRTY DAYS AT ELK HORN TAVERN | 45 |
CHARLES GALLOWAY | 59 |
THOMAS WILHITE | 71 |
A PROVOST MARSHALSHIP | 83 |
DE WITT C HOPKINS | 89 |
JOHN W MORRIS | 101 |
PARIS G STRICKLAND | 107 |
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS | 113 |
ADDENDUM | 161 |
APPENDIX | 169 |
ARKANSIAN BATTLE HYMN | 179 |
Notes | 181 |
Other editions - View all
Loyalty on the Frontier: Or Sketches of Union Men of the South-West with ... A. W. Bishop Limited preview - 2007 |
Loyalty on the Frontier: Or Sketches of Union Men of the South-West with ... A. W. Bishop Limited preview - 2007 |
Loyalty on the Frontier: Or Sketches of Union Men of the South-West with ... A. W. Bishop No preview available - 2007 |
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References to this book
Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey Joseph Marion Bailey No preview available - 2007 |
Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy Richard Nelson Current Limited preview - 1992 |