A RARE CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE PLIGHT AND PATRIOTISM OF SOUTHERN UNIONISTS. Loyalty on the Frontier was first published in 1863 and has the immediacy, passion, and intimacy of its wartime context. Albert Webb Bishop was a New York attorney who joined the Union Army at the start of the Civil War. In 1862, he accepted a commission as lieutenant colonel in a regiment of Ozark mountaineers. While maintaining Union control of northwest Arkansas, Bishop gathered stories of political secession, social coercion, and the brutal terrorism that marked this region. He compiled them into this heroic...
A RARE CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE PLIGHT AND PATRIOTISM OF SOUTHERN UNIONISTS. Loyalty on the Frontier was first published in 1863 and has the immedi...
First published in 1863, this book has the immediacy, passion, and intimacy of its wartime context. It tells the remarkable story of Albert Webb Bishop, a New York lawyer turned Union soldier, who in 1862 accepted a commission as lieutenant colonel in a regiment of Ozark mountaineers. While maintaining Union control of northwest Arkansas, he collected stories of the social coercion, political secession, and brutal terrorism that scarred the region.
His larger goal, however, was to popularize and inspire sympathy for the Southas Unionists and to chronicle the triumph of Unionism in a...
First published in 1863, this book has the immediacy, passion, and intimacy of its wartime context. It tells the remarkable story of Albert Webb Bisho...
