Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession CrisisDaniel 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. "Crofts's study focuses on Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, but it includes analyses of the North and Deep South as well. As a result, his volume presents the views of all parties to the sectional conflict and offers a vivid portrait of the interaction between them.--American Historical Review "Refocuses our attention on an important but surprisingly neglected group--the Unionists of the upper South during the secession crisis, who have been too readily ignored by other historians.--Journal of Southern History |
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... House of Representatives . There he had been a leading southern Unionist . He and his allies had struggled to confine secession to the deep South and to promote peaceful reunion . They failed , of course . And having failed , they then ...
... House of Representatives . There he had been a leading southern Unionist . He and his allies had struggled to confine secession to the deep South and to promote peaceful reunion . They failed , of course . And having failed , they then ...
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... House in 1851 at the age of thirty - three before it came under Democratic control , remained prominent in the state legislature . His brother William B. Stokes , who lived in adjoin- ing DeKalb County , won election to the U.S. House ...
... House in 1851 at the age of thirty - three before it came under Democratic control , remained prominent in the state legislature . His brother William B. Stokes , who lived in adjoin- ing DeKalb County , won election to the U.S. House ...
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... Union speeches to the upper South , trying to stem the secession tide . In early February , he made a polished oration in the House , calling on Republicans to offer concessions that would allay southern 4 Reluctant Confederates.
... Union speeches to the upper South , trying to stem the secession tide . In early February , he made a polished oration in the House , calling on Republicans to offer concessions that would allay southern 4 Reluctant Confederates.
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... House with the support of anti - Jacksonians in 1834 and became a leader in the emerging Whig party . Like Crittenden , Bell briefly sat in William Henry Harrison's ill - fated cabinet in 1841. In 1847 he began the first of two terms in ...
... House with the support of anti - Jacksonians in 1834 and became a leader in the emerging Whig party . Like Crittenden , Bell briefly sat in William Henry Harrison's ill - fated cabinet in 1841. In 1847 he began the first of two terms in ...
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... House of Delegates in 1830. He supported gradual emancipation during the historic legislative de- bates of 1831-32 following the Nat Turner insurrection . During the 1840s he served two terms in Congress as a national Whig . He gained ...
... House of Delegates in 1830. He supported gradual emancipation during the historic legislative de- bates of 1831-32 following the Nat Turner insurrection . During the 1840s he served two terms in Congress as a national Whig . He gained ...
Contents
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3 The Political Origins of Upper South Unionism | 66 |
4 Unionists on the Defensive | 90 |
5 The Unionist Argument | 104 |
6 The Unionist Offensive | 130 |
7 Measuring the Unionist Insurgency | 164 |
11 Reversal of the HandsOff Policy | 289 |
12 The Unionists Fort Sumter and the Proclamation for Seventyfive Thousand Troops | 308 |
Southern Unionists after the Proclamation | 334 |
Rethinking the Secession Crisis | 353 |
Multiple RegressionParty Slavery and Secession | 361 |
Ecological RegressionEstimating Voter Behavior | 367 |
Statistics Secession and the Historians | 376 |
Notes | 383 |
8 The Unionists and Compromise | 195 |
9 The Unionists the Republican Party and PresidentElect Lincoln | 215 |
10 The Unionists and President LincolnThe March 1861 Rapprochement | 254 |
Bibliographical Essay | 457 |
Index | 481 |
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