Rebels against the Confederacy

North Carolina's Unionists

Barton A. Myers

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781107075245
• eBook ISBN: 9781316057926
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggled to build a new nation at the local level and maintain control over manpower, labor, agricultural, and financial resources, which Southern Unionists possessed. The story is not solely one of triumph over adversity but also one of persecution and, ultimately, erasure of these dissidents by the postwar South's Lost Cause mythologizers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• List of tables
• Preface: The Murder of Thomas Ray
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Secession
• 2 Confederate Control
• 3 Resistance
• 4 Irregular Wars
• 5 Unionists under Reconstruction (and in Repose)
• 6 Epilogue
• Appendix A
• Appendix B Methodology: Evaluating the North Carolina Claims of the Southern Claims Commission
• Appendix C Southern Claims Commission Standing Interrogatories
• Appendix D North Carolina Confederate Congressional Districts
• Appendix E North Carolina Counties Where Irregular Wars Erupted by 1864
• Bibliography
• Index