Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis

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University of North Carolina Press, 1989 - History - 502 pages
Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments.

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Prologue
1
PresidentElect Lincoln
215
The Unionists and President Lincoln
254
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Daniel W. Crofts is professor of history at Trenton State College.

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