Claiming the Union : citizenship in the post-Civil War South / Susanna Michele Lee, North Carolina State University.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "We have Fought the First Skirmish": Loyalty and Citizenship; "Is He Who Was a Traitor Last Year, Necessarily a Traitor Now?"; "An Invention of a Convenient and Just and Truthful Mode of Ascertaining the Claims of Loyal Citizens"; "The Only Barrier Which Now Stands Between the Disloyal Claimants and the Treasury"; 2 Men's Union: Fixing the Standard of a Union Man; "A Bold Outspoken Uncompromising Union Man"; "At Heart a Union Man."

"Independent Rebel and Traitor""An Amiable, Timid, Neutral Character"; "A Republican Since the War Closed"; "Poor Hardworking People"; "Once a Slaveholder"; 3 Women's Union: Reckoning with the Female Union Man; "The Rabidest Kind of a Union Person"; "As She Was a Woman, Nothing Direct as to Loyalty or Disloyalty Can Be Expected"; "As a Woman I Took No Part"; "No More than Natural"; 4 Former Slaves' Union: Bestowing Charity or Rewarding Loyalty; "Always A Union Man Although a Slave"; "A Hard Down Slave"; "Friend to the Old Government"; "A Slave Disloyal."

5 The Colored Union: estowing Charity or Rewardin"All the Colored People Were for the Union"; "We Were Called Free"; "Called a Colored Person ... but ... Not a Slave"; "The Indians Were All Union People"; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Standing Interrogatories of 1871; I. Questions to be answered by claimants under oath.; II. Questions as to the taking or furnishing of the property, to be answered by the claimant and his witnesses, under oath; Standing Interrogatories of 1872; Standing Interrogatories of 1874; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1 "We have Fought the First Skirmish."

Chapter 2 Men's UnionChapter 3 Women's Union; Chapter 4 Former Slaves' Union; Chapter 5 The Colored Union; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Court of Claims, Committee on Claims, and Southern Claims Commission Records; Supreme Court Cases; Newspapers and Periodicals; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.

This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War.

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