Divided Loyalties: Fort Sanders and the Civil War in East Tennessee, 3rd Edition
by Digby Gordon Seymour
Digby Gordon Seymour's popular and powerful story of the Civil War in East Tennessee has been a long-time favorite with Civil War enthusiasts in East Tennessee and beyond. Now, the East Tennessee Historical Society brings back this regional classic in a new edition.
Divided Loyalties is the story of the often overlooked but strategically vital East Tennessee campaign of 1863 and the climactic Battle of Fort Sanders, a fierce, twenty-minute assault that secured East Tennessee for the Union and set the stage for the war's final phase. But Divided Loyalties is also the story of East Tennessee's "war within a war," a conflict marked by violence, retribution, and bitterness that destroyed communities, pitted neighbor against neighbor, and tore families apart. Seymour brings these stories together in a forceful narrative based on his extensive research in both official and personal records.
Included in the new edition: more than 150 illustrations, many printed here for the first time; eight pages of color photographs from the collections of the East Tennessee Historical Society Museum; extensive maps, many of which have been prepared especially for this edition; expanded appendices listing the forces engaged, a chronology of operations, and more.
But it is the story itself that is most compelling, a story drawn from the entire range of participants who shaped-and were shaped by-East Tennessee's civil war. It includes the politicians who initiated the campaign, the generals and their strategies, the soldiers who suffered through the ordeal, and the civilians who agonized for the safety of loved ones gone to war-and often for their own safety as well. It is the story of a conflict set in motion by sweeping national issues, but intensified and defined by the "divided loyalties" of East Tennessee.
Purchase a collectors hardcover edition of Divided Loyalties at $39.95 each by clicking the "Buy Now" button below.
Purchase a paperback edition of Divided Loyalties at $27.95 each by clicking the "Buy Now" button below.
If you do not wish to order online, you may call the ETHS Museum Shop at (865) 215-8830 to place an order. The shop is open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern) and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. (Eastern).
Digby Gordon Seymour's popular and powerful story of the Civil War in East Tennessee has been a long-time favorite with Civil War enthusiasts in East Tennessee and beyond. Now, the East Tennessee Historical Society brings back this regional classic in a new edition.
Divided Loyalties is the story of the often overlooked but strategically vital East Tennessee campaign of 1863 and the climactic Battle of Fort Sanders, a fierce, twenty-minute assault that secured East Tennessee for the Union and set the stage for the war's final phase. But Divided Loyalties is also the story of East Tennessee's "war within a war," a conflict marked by violence, retribution, and bitterness that destroyed communities, pitted neighbor against neighbor, and tore families apart. Seymour brings these stories together in a forceful narrative based on his extensive research in both official and personal records.
Included in the new edition: more than 150 illustrations, many printed here for the first time; eight pages of color photographs from the collections of the East Tennessee Historical Society Museum; extensive maps, many of which have been prepared especially for this edition; expanded appendices listing the forces engaged, a chronology of operations, and more.
But it is the story itself that is most compelling, a story drawn from the entire range of participants who shaped-and were shaped by-East Tennessee's civil war. It includes the politicians who initiated the campaign, the generals and their strategies, the soldiers who suffered through the ordeal, and the civilians who agonized for the safety of loved ones gone to war-and often for their own safety as well. It is the story of a conflict set in motion by sweeping national issues, but intensified and defined by the "divided loyalties" of East Tennessee.
Purchase a collectors hardcover edition of Divided Loyalties at $39.95 each by clicking the "Buy Now" button below.
Purchase a paperback edition of Divided Loyalties at $27.95 each by clicking the "Buy Now" button below.
If you do not wish to order online, you may call the ETHS Museum Shop at (865) 215-8830 to place an order. The shop is open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern) and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. (Eastern).