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. Life in
Southern Alabama This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern
plantation during the Civil War was originally published in
1888. This book is filled with vivid details of everything from
methods of making dyes and preparing foods to race relations and
the effects of the war. The book is an unusual and beautifully
written primary source of Southern life inside the blockade
imposed by the Union May 4, 1863 Day's Gap / Sand Mountain
January 26, 1864 Athens August 2-23, 1864 Mobile Bay / Fort
Morgan Fort Gaines October 26-29, 1864 Decatur March 27-April 8,
1865 Spanish Fort April 2-9, 1865 Fort Blakely April 2, 1865
Selma Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards,
Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of