We were in Double Springs, Alabama today and took a few minutes to visit the "Dual Destiny" Civil War monument located there. Double Springs is the county seat for Winston County, Alabama which gained quite a bit of notoriety during the Civil War for refusing to join the Confederacy. They never formally seceded from Alabama but they did provide 259 soldiers to the Union and 112 to the Confederacy. This area of Alabama was primarily made up of subsistence farmers who did not have slaves and a majority of its residents were philosophically more aligned with the North than the South.
Although it doesn't show clearly in the picture, the statue depicts a soldier wearing a Union uniform on his left side and a Confederate uniform on his right side.
The county court house
A few miles out of town we ran across this old barn with a reference to "The Free State Of Winston" - apparently the spirit is still alive
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