Southerners in Blue: They Defied the Confederacy

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Summary: As gut-wrenching as the battlefield carnage
Review: Southerners In Blue: They Defied The Confederacy is the reconstruction of a true story from former journalist Don Umphrey's great-grandfather's written memoirs which Umphrey has correlated with numerous other documents. Southerners In Blue is the true and little known story of individuals who lived in the South yet balked at Confederate rule in the Civil War era. Describing ruthless hostilities neighbor inflicted upon neighbor for being sympathetic to Union or Confederate causes, Southerners In Blue is at once both disturbing as it reveals a hidden and horrific side of the war that tore America in two. As gut-wrenching as the battlefield carnage, Southerners In Blue is a unique, exceptionally well written and welcome addition to academic Civil War reference library collections and very highly recommended for the personal reading lists of Civil War buffs.