Why read Loyalty and Loss?

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

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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…

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Joan E. Cashin

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Storey reveals that a substantial number of white Alabamians strongly opposed secession and the Confederacy.

The homefront, much like the battlefield, was a scene of protracted power struggles. This is also an important work on historical memory, for after 1865, these Unionists were forgotten.

I loved this book, and many students love reading it.

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