"Told here for the first time is the compelling story of the Bluff City during the Civil War. Historian and preservationist Mike Bunn takes you from the pivotal role Eufaula played in Alabamas secession and early enthusiasm for the Confederate cause to its aborted attempt to become the states capital and its ultimate capture by Union forces, chronicling the effects of the conflicton Eufaulans along the way. Civil War Eufaula draws on a wide range of first-hand individual perspectives, including those of husbands and wives, political leaders, businessmen, journalists, soldiers, students and slaves, to produce a mosaic of observationson shared experiences. Together, they communicate what it was like to live in this riverside trading town during a prolonged and cataclysmic war. It is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times"--"A history of the Civil War in Eufaula, Alabama"--.