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Despite the image of a “Solid South,” many southerners stayed loyal to the Union during the Civil War and coexisted uneasily with their Confederate neighbors. In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, the Lewises gave “no cause of offense” but did not hide their beliefs, made clear to Stonewall Jackson as he made their home his headquarters. One family member, a delegate who refused to sign the Secession Ordinance, ran an iron furnace that kept dozens of Loyalists out of the Confederate Army.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 132
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Imprint: Maverick Books
Publication Date:
01 January 2010
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781595346766
Format: Hardcover
“Lewis Fisher has latched onto a very good story. This book helps paint a modern and more broadly based understanding of what happened in Virginia in the 1860s.”— Richard Lowe, author of Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1856–70
“No Cause of Offence rescues from obscurity an interesting and important set of Virginia political leaders and shines a needed spotlight on Virginians who remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War and became influential afterward.”— Brent Tarter, founding editor of the Library of Virginias Dictionary of Virginia Biography and cofounder of the Virginia Forum
“Thorough, creative research has uncovered a rich array of evidence of the precarious ordeal of this Shenandoah Valley family of Unionists during the Civil War, making this volume an important contribution to the history of the period.”— Robert K. Krick, author of Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic
“No Cause of Offence rescues from obscurity an interesting and important set of Virginia political leaders and shines a needed spotlight on Virginians who remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War and became influential afterward.”— Brent Tarter, founding editor of the Library of Virginias Dictionary of Virginia Biography and cofounder of the Virginia Forum
“Thorough, creative research has uncovered a rich array of evidence of the precarious ordeal of this Shenandoah Valley family of Unionists during the Civil War, making this volume an important contribution to the history of the period.”— Robert K. Krick, author of Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic
Celebrated San Antonio historian Lewis F. Fisher, whose Maverick Publishing Company was acquired by Trinity University Press in 2015, has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio’s Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. A former member of the San Antonio River Commission, he has written numerous books himself, including Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio, winner of the 2015 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award, and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, republished in a second edition, and Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend. Fisher has received numerous local, state, and national writing awards and was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation Society in 2014.
— Lewis F. Fisher
— Lewis F. Fisher