Enemies of the country : new perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South / edited by John C. Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inscoe, John C., 1951-

Kenzer, Robert C., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion.

History.

Social aspects.

Unionists (United States Civil War).

Confederate States of America--Politics and government--Congresses.

Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America--Social conditions--Congresses.

Unionists (United States Civil War)--Congresses.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects--Congresses.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Public opinion--Congresses.

Public opinion--Confederate States of America--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2001]

Summary:

Exploring family and community dynamics, Enemies of the Country profiles men and women of the Confederate states who, in addition to the wartime burdens endured by most southerners, had to cope with being a detested minority.

With one exception, these featured individuals were white, but they otherwise represent a wide spectrum of the southern citizenry. They include natives to the region, foreign immigrants and northern transplants, affluent and poor, farmers and merchants, politicians and journalists, slaveholders and nonslaveholders. Some resided in highland areas and in remote parts of border states, the two locales with which southern Unionists are commonly associated. Others, however, lived in the Deep South and in urban settings. Some were openly defiant; others took a more covert stand.

Together the portraits underscore how varied Unionist identities and motives were, and how fluid and often fragile the personal, familial, and local circumstances of Unionist allegiance could be. For example, many southern Unionists shared basic social and political assumptions with white southerners who cast their lots with the Confederacy, including an abhorrence of emancipation.

The very human stories of southern Unionists -- as they saw themselves and as their neighbors saw them -- are shown here to be far more complex and colorful than previously acknowledged.

Contents:

Fighting the devil with fire: David Hunter Strother's private civil war / Jonathan M. Berkey

Red strings and half brothers: civil wars in Alamance County, North Carolina, 1861-1871 / Scott Reynolds Nelson

Highland households divided: family deceptions, diversions, and divisions in southern Appalachia's inner civil war / John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney

Prudent silence and strict neutrality: the parameters of Unionism in Parson Brownlow's Knoxville, 1860-1863 / Robert Tracy McKenzie

They had determined to root us out: dual memoirs by a Unionist couple in Blue Ridge Georgia / Keith S. Bohannon

Vermont Yankees in King Cotton's Court: Cyrena and Amherst Stone in Confederate Atlanta / Thomas G. Dyer

Poor loving prisoners of war: Nelly Kinzie Gordon and the dilemma of Northern-born women in the Confederate South / Carolyn J. Stefanco

Safety lies only in silence: secrecy and subersion in Montgomery's Unionist community / William Warren Rogers Jr.

The Williams Clan's civil war: how an Arkansas farm family became a guerrilla band / Kenneth C. Barnes

Defiant Unionists: militant Germans in Confederate Texas / Anne J. Bailey

Select bibliography on Southern Unionism.

Notes:

Largely papers presented at a conference held at the University of Richmond in May 1998 on the topic "Families at war: loyalty and conflict in the Civil War South."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0820322881

OCLC:

45438278