Caught in the middle between the north and the south, in a war that was unwinnable at any price; the people of Winston County Alabama had nowhere to go, nowhere to hide from either side. Just fifty years earlier many of their fathers fought to preserve the Union, so the thought of seceding from it was reprehensible. Secessionists led by William Yancey thought they could do better and preserve a life style based on slavery. William Looney, nicknamed the Black Fox by the Confederate Army, owned a tavern in Winston County where local leaders decided was a good place to vote on how to deal with...