Putting on Blue: Confederates from the Athens, Georgia, Area Who Became Galvanized Yankees

by Al Hester

Book Overview

The little-known story of Confederate troops who put on the Union's blue uniform to serve the North in the Civil War. Writer and researcher Al Hester, PhD, brings to life events which led 52 Athens-area Confederate soldiers to forsake the Confederate forces and swear allegiance to the Union. They changed their loyalty in order to gain freedom from northern prisons in the last two years of the Civil War. President Lincoln's policy allowed them to join...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099663990X
• ISBN13: 9780996639903
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Green Berry Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"