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

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 diverse group that included slaveholders and nonslaveholders, business people, professionals, farmers, and blacks. By considering the years 1861-1874 as a whole, she clearly connects loyalists' sometimes brutal wartime treatment with their postwar behavior.

Author: Margaret M. Storey
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780807130223

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 919

About the Author
Margaret M. Storey is professor of history at DePaul University in Chicago.