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The desire for security was a motivation for Unionist slaveholders, who feared that secession would cause a conflict that would result in the loss of their slaves; however, some stated that they would rather give up slavery than dissolve the Union. The Southern ideals of honor, family, and duty were as important to Unionists as to their pro ...
In the United States, Southern Unionists were white Southerners living in the Confederate States of America opposed to secession. Many fought for the Union during the Civil War. These people are also referred to as Southern Loyalists, Union Loyalists, [1] or Lincoln's Loyalists. [2]
Paint Bank, Virginia was known as a Union-Hole because of the pro-Union membership in these societies. One of the members of the Order was a Christiansburg, Virginia wheelwright named Williams. It is not known if this is the same man named Williams that residents of Back Valley, Virginia spoke about as a member of the Loyal League .
Unionist political parties active in the border states and areas of the Confederacy occupied by the Union Army were known by a variety of names, including the Union Party, the Union Democratic Party, and the Unconditional Union Party. [14] As the war progressed, rival Radical and Conservative organizations divided Unionists in several states.
Newton Knight (November 10, 1829 – February 16, 1922) was an American farmer, soldier, and Southern Unionist in Mississippi, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a band of Confederate Army deserters who resisted the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Units and formations of the Union army from West Virginia (39 P) Pages in category "Southern Unionists in the American Civil War" The following 181 pages are in this category, out of 181 total.
Stephen Duncan (March 4, 1787 – January 29, 1867) was an American planter and banker in Mississippi.He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves.
The Union Party, known as the Constitutional Union Party in the state of Georgia, was a political party organized in several slave states to support the Compromise of 1850. It was one of two major parties in the states of Alabama , Georgia , and Mississippi in the early 1850s, alongside the Southern Rights Party .