Rebels against the Confederacy

Barton A. Myers is Assistant Professor of Civil War History at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. His first book on American Civil War guerrilla warfare Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 won the 2009 Jules and Frances Landry Award for the best book in southern studies published by Louisiana State University Press. Myers has written articles and/or book reviews for George Mason University's History News Network (HNN), H-Net's H-CivWar and H-South, the Civil War Book Review, the Journal of American History, Common-Place, the Civil War Monitor, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of the Civil War Era, Army History, the North Carolina Historical Review, the Journal of American Nineteenth Century History, and Civil War History. He is the recipient of a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, a Russell Weigley grant, and a Mellon research fellowship.

• 1. Secession: 'it was perfect madness'; 2. Confederate control: 'such a monarchical or tyrannical government'; 3. Resistance: 'I never wanted any other flag to wave over my head'; 4. Irregular wars: 'a state of insurrection against the laws'; 5. Unionists under Reconstruction (and in repose): 'I don't feel safe'; 6. Epilogue: 'all classes in the South united as by magic'.

'A well-researched, lucidly written, and convincing exploration of southern Unionism during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Highly recommended.' Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University