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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Southern Ishmaelites: Wartime unionism and its consequences in Alabama, 1860-1874 Abstract: Using Southern Claims Commission testimony, manuscript collections, military unit histories, Freedmen\'s Bureau papers, newspapers, and census records, this study elucidates the history of Alabama unionists during the Civil War and Reconstruction. It argues that while class played a significant role in unionist identity, the most influential factors in dissent were the kinship-bound, tightly-knit rural neighborhoods in which unionists lived. After Alabama seceded in January, 1861, unionists relied on networks of sympathetic kin and neighbors to help men avoid Confederate service and join the Union Army, to assist families crossing military lines into the North, and to collect information about Confederates for federal troops and spies. Free and enslaved blacks took pro-union action during the war and collaborated with white loyalists to advance the Union cause. Such cooperation also reveals the divergent objectives of white and black unionists: while whites strove to preserve the Union, blacks sought to overthrow slavery. |
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