Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South

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, the Unionists discussed here are white, but they otherwise represented a wide spectrum of the Southern citizenry. Together the portraits underscore how varied Unionist identities and motives were, and how fluid the circumstances of Unionist allegiance could be.