With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era

by William A. Blair

Book Overview

Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly than federal agents in punishing traitors in their midst, forcing the government to rethink legal practices and definitions. In reconciling the northern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469614057
• ISBN13: 9781469614052
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"