The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance

Authors

Christopher R. Ruehlen

ISBN

978-0-8262-1988-6

Price

$35.00

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Abstract

Loyalty and Dissent in Pennsylvania

In the fall of 1864 nearly 1,000 Union troops arrived in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. This military expedition expected to uncover the so-called “Fishing Creek Confederacy," an armed fortress containing hundreds of southern sympathizers conspiring to r....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.16.3.10

Recommended Citation

Ruehlen, Christopher R. (2014) "The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 16 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.16.3.10
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol16/iss3/8