Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War

xiv, 208 pp. Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War; this study depicts its political, economic, social, and commercial history from 1860 to 1865. Rogers (history, Gainsville College, GA) draws on historical documents and personal papers to provide an overview of the events that led to Alabama's secession and discuss such aspects of the city's wartime life as its business patterns and administration, efforts to promote the Confederate cause and defend the city from Union forces, and the plight of Unionists who remained in the city.