Loyalty on the Frontier

by Bishop, Albert Webb; Scott, Kim Allen

• ISBN13: 9781557287571
• ISBN10: 1557287570
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Summary

A RARE CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE PLIGHT AND PATRIOTISM OF SOUTHERN UNIONISTS. Loyalty on the Frontier was first published in 1863 and has the immediacy, passion, and intimacy of its wartime context. Albert Webb Bishop was a New York attorney who joined the Union Army at the start of the Civil War. In 1862, he accepted a commission as lieutenant colonel in a regiment of Ozark mountaineers. While maintaining Union control of northwest Arkansas, Bishop gathered stories of political secession, social coercion, and the brutal terrorism that marked this region. He compiled them into this heroic tale about the triumph of Unionism in a Confederate state, a history meant to inspire citizens everywhere. He wrote to boost Union morale, to elicit sympathy for the South's Unionists, and to identify both loyal and disloyal residents of Arkansas for postwar reward and retribution. To these ends, his volume includes biographies of prominent local Unionists: and it describes the activities of his regiment, his tenure as provost marshal in Fayetteville, and the course of the w

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Editor's Introduction	xi
LOYALTY ON THE FRONTIER; OR, SKETCHES OF UNION MEN OF THE SOUTH-WEST WITH INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES IN REBELLION ON THE BORDER
Preface	3	(4)
Introduction	7	(8)
Isaac Murphy	15	(10)
John I. Worthington	25	(20)
Thirty Days at Elkhorn Tavern	45	(14)
Charles Galloway	59	(12)
Thomas Wilhite	71	(12)
A Provost Marshalship	83	(6)
DeWitt C. Hopkins	89	(12)
John W. Morris	101	(6)
Paris G. Strickland	107	(6)
North-Western Arkansas	113	(48)
Addendum	161	(8)
Appendix	169	(10)
Arkansian Battle Hymn	179	(2)
Notes	181	(36)
Bibliography	217	(6)
Index	223