"Exploring family and community dynamics, Enemies of the Country profiles men and women of the Confederate states who, in addition to the wartime burdens endured by most southerners, had to cope with being a detested minority." "With one exception, these featured individuals were white, but they otherwise represent a wide spectrum of the southern citizenry."--BOOK JACKET.

Largely papers presented at a conference held at the University of Richmond in May 1998 on the topic "Families at war: loyalty and conflict in the Civil War South."

Fighting the devil with fire: David Hunter Strother's private civil war / Jonathan M. Berkey -- Red strings and half brothers: civil wars in Alamance County, North Carolina, 1861-1871 / Scott Reynolds Nelson -- Highland households divided: family deceptions, diversions, and divisions in southern Appalachia's inner civil war / John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney -- Prudent silence and strict neutrality: the parameters of Unionism in Parson Brownlow's Knoxville, 1860-1863 / Robert Tracy McKenzie -- They had determined to root us out: dual memoirs by a Unionist couple in Blue Ridge Georgia / Keith S. Bohannon -- Vermont Yankees in King Cotton's Court: Cyrena and Amherst Stone in Confederate Atlanta / Thomas G. Dyer -- Poor loving prisoners of war: Nelly Kinzie Gordon and the dilemma of Northern-born women in the Confederate South / Carolyn J. Stefanco -- Safety lies only in silence: secrecy and subersion in Montgomery's Unionist community / William Warren Rogers Jr. -- The Williams Clan's civil war: how an Arkansas farm family became a guerrilla band / Kenneth C. Barnes -- Defiant Unionists: militant Germans in Confederate Texas / Anne J. Bailey -- Select bibliography on Southern Unionism.