The Union Hole: Unionist Activity and Local Conflict in Western Virginia

Turk, David Scott

ISBN 10: 0788400290 / ISBN 13: 9780788400292

Published by Heritage Books, Inc, Bowie MD, 1994

About this Item

xx, 130p., illustrated with a few period portrait photographs, softbound first edition in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps. Nice clean copy, signed by the author on his titlepage. Mixed loyalties, often inviting hostility, violence and murder, in a particular Virginia county. Unionist Virginians tended to be strongly union-friendly, not abolition-friendly. Seller Inventory # 317851

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Union Hole: Unionist Activity and Local ...

Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc, Bowie MD

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Paperback

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

This study of Civil War Unionism in western Virginia focuses on the dilemmas confronted by the people of Craig, Alleghany and Monroe Counties (the last presently in West Virginia), and contains an abundance of names and biographical information valued by genealogists. True tales about the underground of secret societies, prison escapes and local police actions illustrate the hard choices encountered by members of the community. Some faced war, prison, self-imposed exile, or even death for the decisions they made.