Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate AtlantaJHU Press, 1999 - 383 pages A story of loyalty and patriotism, this volume brings to life the adventures of Atlanta Unionists during the Civil War, offering a perspective on the conflict that previous accounts have ignored. Thomas G. Dyer draws on previously unpublished sources - including a long-lost diary and a work of purported fiction based closely on the experience of Cyrena Stone, a Vermont native - to recreate the drama, deprivation and suspicion that marked the experience of the Union in the closing, and increasingly desperate, years of the war. Arrested on suspicion of spying (the penalty was death) but released by Southern authorities, her house destroyed by Union shelling during the vividly rendered fall of Atlanta, Cyrena Stone survived the war to see the triumph of the cause for which she had risked her life. |
Contents
The World of Cyrena and Amherst Stone | 8 |
Unionists and the Secession Crisis | 26 |
The Knell of All Our Bright Hopes 53 | 53 |
The Limits of Loyalty 75 | 75 |
A Perfect Reign of Terror | 97 |
SEVEN | 135 |
EIGHT | 149 |
The Red Waves of War | 155 |
ΤΕΝ | 213 |
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