In this Book
- The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Missouri Press
 
            Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania was a staunch supporter of the Lincoln administration. The commonwealth supplied more than 360,000 white soldiers and 9,000 black soldiers during the conflict. However, there was sustained opposition to the war throughout the state, much of it fanned by the pens of Democratic newspaper editors. Though most opposition was disorganized and spontaneous, other aspects of the antiwar sentiment in the state occasionally erupted as major incidents. 
           
 
            Sauers and Tomasak describe the draft in Pennsylvania and consider how Columbia County fit into the overall draft process. Subsequent chapters take the reader through the events of the summer of 1864, including the interaction of soldiers and civilians in the county, the prison experiences of the men, and the trials. Later chapters cover the August 1865 Democratic rally at Nob Mountain and the effects of the draft episode after the war was over, including its influence on the 1872 election for governor, the 1891 murder trial, and the formation of the official Democratic version of the events, which has been used by historians ever since.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 6: A Shooting
- pp. 41-46
- Chapter 7: Military Intervention
- pp. 47-58
- Chapter 8: Soldiers and Civilians
- pp. 59-67
- Chapter 9: Prison
- pp. 68-91
- Chapter 10: The Military Trials
- pp. 92-119
- Chapter 11: The War’s End and Knob Mountain
- pp. 120-140
- Chapter 12: Postwar Reverberations
- pp. 141-158
- Chapter 13: Historiography
- pp. 159-172
- Chapter 14: Conclusions
- pp. 173-186
- Bibliography
- pp. 215-220