Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction

by Margaret M. Storey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807130222
• ISBN13: 9780807130223
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"