Loyalty and Loss

By Margaret M. Storey,

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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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1 author picked Loyalty and Loss as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

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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