Disloyalty in the Confederacy

by Georgia Lee Tatum

Overview

This is a study of the official records of the Union and the Confederate armies, of diaries, memoirs, and reminiscences of participants in the war, which reveal the existence of much disaffection in every state with the Confederacy. Many of the disaffected formed into bands professing loyalty to the Union. The author attempts to discover the causes of this movement, the classes that participated in it, and the purposes and work of the organization. Originally published in 1934.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469609096
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Edition description:	1
Pages:	188
Sales rank:	1,328,350
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Georgia Lee Tatum taught for many years at Mississippi Delta State Teachers College (now Delta State University). Introducing this Bison Books edition is David Williams, a professor of history at Valdosta State University in Georgia. He is the author of Rich Man’s War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.

Editorial Reviews

"This is the sort of book necessary to balance accounts of the Southern Confederacy. Heretofore, the impression has been too often left that the South fought as a unit with a common purpose."—Journal of Southern History

Journal of Southern History

"Though 600,000 men out of a population of 8,000,000 whites offered their services to the Confederacy in the first year of the Civil War, before its close disaffection and active disloyalty in every Confederate state had seriously weakened the Southern cause. The reasons for this disaffection were many: loyalty to the Union and apathy toward secession, the resentment of poor whites at being drafted to fight 'a rich man's war,' an intense sectionalism within the seceding states themselves, the pacifist influence of certain foreign and Quaker groups. . . . A solid and well documented study.”—New Republic

New Republic

"Disloyalty in the Confederacy definitely puts to rout the belief, once common, that ‘every man, woman and child stood behind Jefferson Davis and the Stars and Bars in support of the Confederacy.' . . . [It] brings to light much hitherto unrevealed information about the activities of those who carried on what might be called a counter-rebellion during the War between the States."—New York Times Book Review

New York Times Book Review