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Southerners in Blue: They Defied the Confederacy (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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A true story about the Civil War in northwest Alabama like "The Free State of Jones" in neighboring Mississippi.

--Southern men turn their backs on their secessionist neighbors and form their own Union regiment.

--A slave-owning minister heads an underground pro-Union movement.

“As I shared tidbits of my research findings with friends, most were surprised to hear conventional knowledge about the Civil War turned upside down.” Author Don Umphrey from the Introduction


Cracks in the Confederacy usually don’t show up in American History 101 or even 102. But they are what author Don Umphrey discovered when conducting research on his great-grandfather’s involvement in the Civil War.

Through this ancestor lived in Alabama, he and many of his neighbors were called Tories because of their allegiance to a strong Union. Hostilities grew as these Union-minded southerners balked at serving in the Confederate army. Some donned Union uniforms and subsequently paid the ultimate price for their convictions.

When these men went off to Union army, their families suffered as Confederates confiscated their belongings. As the war heated up, individuals committed atrocities against people they’d known for years.

The conflict was truly neighbor-to-neighbor. Lawlessness finally reigned as the families of both Confederate and Union soldiers were terrorized.

Animosities were so great when the war was over, most survivors wouldn’t talk about what had happened. The silence continued for generations.

Umphrey pieced together this true story over a period of eight years and presents it here as a fact-based novel using his great-grandfather’s written memories and many often obscure documents.

The author is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
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    27 ottobre 2011
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0060MQRZ4
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Quarry Press, Dallas, Texas; 1st Edition (27 ottobre 2011)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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Billy Ray Chitwood
5,0 su 5 stelle The Private Hell of a Soldier' Day to Day
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It was extremely well done and I enjoyed every page. My husband's G Grandfather, David Lawson Bridges, Civil War pension papers show that when he was released at the end of the war he was so sick that his friends had to help him on his horse and see him home or he wouldn't have made it - he suffered the rest of his life from illnesses who's onsets began during his service in the Union Army. He was from another State, Tennessee, who's county was split. Don Umphrey's book made David's service come alive for us.

As many books as I've read on the Civil War, none have shown so deeply this aspect of the conflict, nor shown what the average soldier suffered, not in battle, but in the day to day living.

I highly recommend Southerners In Blue to anyone that wants a deeper insight into a conflict that torn families, friends and communities asunder.
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Moccasin
5,0 su 5 stelle Now I Understand ....
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 3 dicembre 2013
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Years ago I asked my grandmother about family after the Civil War. She said "Let the dead rest in peace," and would say no more. This book brings to life what went on in Winston County Alabama during and after that bloody conflict. Traces of it were present in the 1930s and 1940s during my childhood.

A great family history which brings into focus real people and other families in similar predicaments. More is coming out about the Tories all the time as at the online site UNIONIST CHRONICLES.

I think young men would be interested in reading this title for the lively descriptions of fighting. If I could say one thing to my grandma, it would be, "Now I understand."
----one of the McNutt, Weaver, and Barnett descendents.
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Phred
4,0 su 5 stelle Honoring those who put national loyalty first
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 21 aprile 2019
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Given all of the recent heat over statues to the Confederacy and the allegations of suppression of history, I was eager to read Don Umphrey’s Southerners in Blue: They Defied the Confederacy (Kindle Edition).

As a youngster living in the south during the 100th anniversary of the, Recent Unpleasantries (a PC Term gentle people in the south used at that time) I spent a lot of play time shooting invading Yankee troops who dared upon my front lawn. Yup in those days an eight-year-old with a 4 foot long toy musket was not a reportable offense. Later as a Midshipman I thought about the USNA of 1861 and the decisions people made to stay or go south. I hope I would have been a loyal American and stayed true to my oath.

Much later I came upon reports that every state, except South Carolina fielded at least a regiment of Union soldiers. I remember the Civil War described as a war that set brother against brother. Clearly there is more history than is memorialized in monuments to confederates and the Confederacy.

In his intro, Dom Umphrey introduces us to his Civil War relative, John Roberts Phillips. A Union soldier, a sergeant to be exact in the US Army’s First Alabama. One of several similar sized forces organized around like-minded citizens of Alabama.

At some time after the war, Phililips wrote his war time memoirs. Journalist and Professor Umphrey uses it at eh back bone of a deeply researched book that ties together official records, local records and other war times autobiographies. The result is a story that serves to remind that history is complex.

Without going into too any details, it is very clear that neither the North nor the south had sufficient logistics in place to feed their armies. Both sides raided and stole from private citizens. Except that in the case of the south, the raids were on fellow southerners, and sometimes the union officers offered receipts for the items taken.

Sherman’s March may have been more organized and determined to break the will of the Confederacy , but there was very little new or more severe than what southern soldiers had been doing , and doubling doing if it was felt that the farm being ravaged had union sympathies. To be clear it was not just property at risk. Women, children and the elderly would be left to starve, where they were not left dead, burned-out or personally assaulted. Wars are rarely known for civility and civil wars have an especially poor reputation.

Umphrey is perhaps too tied to the daily activities of his relative. Much of John Phillip’s Civil War was hiding from his fellow southerners and much of his time in uniform was recovering from the kinds of diseases that claimed more CW casualties than the mini-ball or artillery. Because Umphrey has many more resources than the diary, he relates a lot of the people, unit actions and context that Sgt. Phillips may have missed while in hospital or was busy elsewhere.

Southerners in Blue can drag and not every outside story belongs. The story of Phillips’ neighbors who served with him, were captured and died in the infamous Andersonville Prison is horrific and compelling but perhaps could have been better detailed in a separate book.

My bottom line is that this is a very important book. This is a view of the American Civil War not usually remembered and one deserving of its turn. John Phillips returned to his home in Northern Alabama. He is there memorialized by a school bearing in his name. It is worth every southerner’s time to learn if their community, or state has any memorials to those who stood with their county against, if necessary, their brothers.
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Kathy Long
5,0 su 5 stelle Great read
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 1 agosto 2021
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Very good book I learned a lot and stumbled across some of my family in this book called my cousin she also bought the book
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EliciaTX
5,0 su 5 stelle Very well-researched and enlightening
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 16 giugno 2013
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It was thrilling to read this account of my great-great-grandfather, John Roberts Phillips, and I deeply appreciate all of the research done by Dr. Umphrey, as well as his presentation of it in such an interesting, readable format. Though I have never met the author, I am indebted to him for recording our family history, and for bringing to life so many events of the Civil War. It really brought home the horrors of that time in our country's history, and gave me a greater appreciation for our ancestors who lived through it. The great lengths he went to in order to connect all of the historical facts and events speaks highly of the author's dedication to excellence, and he has created a family treasure that will be passed down to future generations.
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