NORTH ALABAMA LOYALISTS



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Unionists

of the Warrior Mountains of Alabama

Volume B

Compiled by Joel S. Mize

CONTACT INFO: Joel S. Mize - 14010 W. Virginia Drive - Lakewood, CO 80228

Phone 303-989-2938; email jmize@

8-1/2 x 11; 261 pp w/color maps; $26.95 + S&H ($3.00); first of a series of 12 volumes

Volume B is here!

The story continues in Lauderdale, Limestone and Lawrence Counties

Special treatment of Cherokee history.

Territory, settlement and migration maps

Notable Cherokee family groups

Sampling of mixed-blood Unionists

Updated lists of Federal regiments served by Alabamians;

Added USV independent companies of

North Alabama

More Unionist family profiles from this unique and fascinating corner of the South.

Unionists of the Warrior Mountains of Alabama synthesizes a piece of national history at a scope level never before quantified or spotlighted. For the family historian or genealogist.

Release May 16, 2005

Joel Sanford Mize… Has had a lifetime of connection to the subject material synthesized by this work of history and genealogy. Mize holds a BS in Chemical Engineering (1966) from the University of Alabama and an MBA degree (1978) from Pepperdine University. This Warrior Mountain work flows from his long-time hobby of detailing family trees, together with a life-long fascination about the Unionist community of North Alabama, from which he sprang.

Previous literature by Mize includes Unionists of the Warrior Mountains of Alabama Vol. A

Family histories;

Mize Genealogy in America, 1984 (co-authored)

Putnam and Ramsey Family Genealogy, 1995

Memoirs of Gene H. Mize, 1998

Mize served as Vice President and President of the Houston (TX) Genealogy Forum. 1979-1981.

Unionists of the Warrior Mountains of Alabama series will ….

Reveal the largely hidden Unionists families of Alabama, inundated by the larger, dominant "southern culture" & backlash against dropping of the Reconstruction that favored Unionists with patronage jobs, etc.

   

Discredit the larger national stereotype of the whole South being lock-step Secessionists, slaveholders.

   

Discredit the false stereotype of the Unionist as ignorant hillbillies, lazy, as fostered in the prejudicial writings by Stanley Hoole, Alabama Civil War Historian.

   

Show that North Alabamians staffed not only the better-known 1st Alabama Cavalry (USV), but served in over 30 Federal Regiments. Several USV indepentent companies formed for counter-guerilla operations in North. AL.

   

Explore the ties between Unionist loyalty stands and the adoption of Jacksonian views of Manifest Destiny -  while, ironically, embracing local isolation.

   

Show a mixed-blood American Indian "warrior" cultural influence of the Mountaineers that resisted conscription incursions into their mountain/cove domain. 

   

Unveil the secretive Union League (much like the Underground Railroad of the NE), organized by General James Garfield utilizing a network of Alabama Masons and Christian Church in alliance with Primitive-Baptists to spy and provide safe houses for those seeking refugee status in the North, or to join the Union Army.

   

Demonstrate the wider popular support for the Union cause (upper 1/3 of Alabama solidly voted for delegates to represent them as Cooperationists at the State Constitutional Convention December 1860. 

   

Show the native Alabama Unionists who took the top roles during the reconstruction era. 

Reviews of Volume A….

• “This work is a most impressive achievement, and one of great utility to both historians and genealogists.”   The University of Alabama Press, Daniel J.J. Ross, Director, of Tuscaloosa AL.

• “To put it mildly ‘I like it’; second to none; best I have seen.  Jean and I have hardly put it down.  Good Job !,  So much history”.   Marion County AL historian, storyteller and artist, Joel Palmer, of Hamilton AL.

• “Congratulations on this wonderful new addition to Marion County LocalHistory!  I've read it cover to cover twice!  Such a treat!”   Author of The Morrows of Marion County, Alabama, Sharon Tomback, Bedford NY.

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