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Southern Unionists Pamphlets and the Civil War. Edited by Jon Wakelyn. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 392. $39-95.)
Southern unionists seem to be enjoying a particularly strong presence in the historical spotlight over the past year. Thomas G. Dyer's Secret Yankees, a meticulous recreation of Atlanta's heretofore unacknowledged unionist community, appeared last spring; Steven V. Ash has edited a new collection of Knoxville loyalist William G. "Parson" Brownlow's writings; and David Williams introduced a new edition of Georgia Lee Tatum's Disloyalty in the Confederacy (1933). Two essay collections explore different aspects of the Southern unionist experience: Unionists, Guerrillas and Violence on the Confederate Homefront, edited by Daniel E. Sutherland, is just out; and Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South, edited by John Inscoe and Robert Kenzer, is...