in the Union Army's new 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, commanded by an officer from New York, George E. Spencer. While the 1st Alabama Cavalry would play an important part in the war, it generally did so outside of Alabama. Between 8,000 and 10,000 deserters from the Confederate Army were sheltered in Winston County during the war. Aftermath After the war, local politics in Winston County were dominated by the Republican Party. Legacy Winston's unique history has become the basis of a small tourist industry, which includes an outdoor drama loosely based on the events. A passenger boat named the Free State Lady plies the waters of the county's Smith Lake. The "Dual Destiny" statue located in front of Winston County courthouse in Double Springs depicts a young soldier dressed half as a Union troop and half as Confederate soldier. See also Fannin County, Georgia, which moved from pro-secession to anti-secession stands during the Civil War References Further reading Downing, David C. A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2007. Dodd, Donald B., and Amy Bartlett-Dodd. The Free State of Winston. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2000. Dodd, Donald B., and Wynelle S. Dodd. Winston: An Antebellum and Civil War History of a Hill County of North Alabama. Vol. 4 of Annals of Northwest Alabama, comp. Carl Elliot. Birmingham: Oxmoor Press, 1972. Winston County Heritage Book Committee. The Heritage of Winston County, Alabama. Clanton, Ala.: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 1998. Umphrey, Don. Southerners in Blue: They Defied the Confederacy. Quarry Press, 2002. External links The Incident at Looney's Tavern information at the Alabama Department of Archives and History Free State of Winston Former territorial entities in North America Former regions and territories of the United States Separatism in the United States Alabama in the American Civil War Winston County, Alabama Southern Unionists in the American Civil War