Loyalty on the Frontier - Sketches of Union Men of the South-West with Incidents and Adventures in Rebellion on the Border

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 South's Unionists and to chronicle the triumph of Unionism in a Confederate state. His account points to the complex and divisive nature of Confederate society and in doing so provides a perspective that has long been absent from discussions of the Civil War.

About the author

Kim Allen Scott is Special Collections Librarian for The Libraries, Montana State University, Bozeman. He is the author of many articles on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi and has supplemented his research through active participation in Civil Warbattle reenactments.

Product details

• Authors: A. W. Bishop, A.W. Bishop, Albert Webb Bishop, Lieutenant Colonel Albert Webb Bishop
• Assisted by: Kim Allen Scott (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2004
• EAN: 9781557287571
• ISBN: 978-1-55728-757-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 520 g
• Series: Civil War in the West; The Civil War in the West
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous