Loyalty on the Frontier, Or, Sketches of Union Men of the South-west

by Albert Webb Bishop

1863 · University of Arkansas Press

First published in 1863, this book has the immediacy, passion, and intimacy of its wartime context. It tells the remarkable story of Albert Webb Bishop, a New York lawyer turned Union soldier, who in 1862 accepted a commission as lieutenant colonel in a regiment of Ozark mountaineers. While maintaining Union control of northwest Arkansas, he collected stories of the social coercion, political secession, and brutal terrorism that scarred the region. His larger goal, however, was to popularize and inspire sympathy for the South's Unionists and to chronicle the triumph of Unionism in a Confederate state. His account points to the complex and divisive nature of Confederate society and in doing so provides a perspective that has long been absent from discussions of the Civil War.

Aren't You Sorry You Asked

by Albert L. Masler, Jr.

2002 · AuthorHouse

This book takes the reader on an armchair tour of the sacred places of Whales, a tiny country in the western region of the British Isles that has retained much of its Celtic culture and language. Using the six ancient cathedrals as bases, the visitor explores this tiny nation's wealth of holy, magical, and mystical sites.