Period of Sectional Controversy PAGE Composition of the Population of Alabama 3 The Indians and Nullification 8 Slavery Controversy and Political Divisions 10 Emancipation Sentiment in North Alabama 10 Early Party Divisions 11 William Lowndes Yancey 13 Growth of Secession Sentiment 14 "Unionists" Successful in 1851-1852 16 Yancey-Pryor Debate, 1858 17 The Charleston Convention of 1860 18 The Election of 1860 19 Separation of the Churches, 1821-1861 21 Senator Clay's Farewell Speech in the Senate 25

Secession from the Union Secession Convention Called 27 Parties in the Convention 28 Reports on Secession 31 Debate on Secession 31 Political Theories of Members 34 Ordinance of Secession Passed 36 Confederate States Formed 39 Self-denying Ordinance 41 African Slave Trade 42 Commissioners to Other States 46 Legislation by the Convention 49 North Alabama in the Convention 53 Incidents of the Session 56 PART II WAR TIMES IN ALABAMA

Military and Political Events Military Operations 61 The War in North Alabama 62 The Streight Raid 67 Rousseau's Raid 68 The War in South Alabama 69 Wilson's Raid and the End of the War 71 Destruction by the Armies 74 Military Organization 78 Alabama Soldiers: Number and Character 78 Negro Troops 86 Union Troops from Alabama 87 Militia System 88 Conscription and Exemption 92 Confederate Enrolment Laws 92 Policy of the State in Regard to Conscription 95 Effect of the Enrolment Laws 98 Exemption from Service 100 Tories and Deserters 108 Conditions in North Alabama 109 Unionists, Tories, and Mossbacks 112 Growth of Disaffection 114 Outrages by Tories and Deserters 119 Disaffection in South Alabama 122 Prominent Tories and Deserters 124 Numbers of the Disaffected 127 Party Politics and the Peace Movement 131 Political Conditions, 1861-1865 131 The Peace Society 137 Reconstruction Sentiment 143