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Loyalty And Loss:

Alabama's Unionists In The Civil War And Reconstruction
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LSU Press, 2004 - History - 296 pages
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.

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Contents

Introduction
1
The Political Culture of Loyalism
18
Resisting the Confederate Draft
56
Unionists Slaves
88
Unionists Slaves and the Federal Counterinsurgency
133
The Limits of Presidential Reconstruction
170
Radical Activism and Klan Backlash
196
Epilogue
232
Questions Used in Interrogation by the Southern Claims
244
Demographic Tables
254
Bibliography
263
Index
287
Index of Loyal Alabamians
293
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About the author (2004)

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

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