Gentlemen,

If you spend money on "Divided Loyalties" get the latest edition. It allegedly has been updated. The earlier version had numerous inaccuracies. The information on the "Affair at Philadelphia" is out of sequence and wrong in the earlier version. The book also focuses on Knoxville almost exclusively. The UDC in Knoxville put it together primarily and the Eastern Tennessee Historical Society published it 1963.

The latest good books to read on East Tennessee and the Civil War are "Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870" by W. Todd Groce and "War at Every Door: Partisan Politics & Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869" by Noel C. Fisher.

East Tennessee is a region that has not, unfortunately, been looked at seriously by historians until recently. One of my projects is looking at it in the fall of 1863.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
Niota, Tennessee
War Between the States Historian
Historian: 39th Georgia Infantry Regiment
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