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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... Lincoln's election as president did not unite the South in support of secession . Instead , events during the winter of 1860-61 split the South more deeply than ever before . ' Seven deep South states from South Carolina west to Texas ...
... Lincoln's election as president did not unite the South in support of secession . Instead , events during the winter of 1860-61 split the South more deeply than ever before . ' Seven deep South states from South Carolina west to Texas ...
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... Lincoln's election . They had a program to confront northern menace and insult . And , not least among their assets ... Lincoln's inauguration , to avoid living " even for an hour " in a country with a Republican president . Ruffin had ...
... Lincoln's election . They had a program to confront northern menace and insult . And , not least among their assets ... Lincoln's inauguration , to avoid living " even for an hour " in a country with a Republican president . Ruffin had ...
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... Lincoln had agreed to the conciliatory plan . Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy - five thousand troops on April 15 , in effect asking the upper South to fight the lower South , stirred the third and greatest wave . It ...
... Lincoln had agreed to the conciliatory plan . Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy - five thousand troops on April 15 , in effect asking the upper South to fight the lower South , stirred the third and greatest wave . It ...
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... Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy - five thousand troops , which forced the upper South to choose sides in ... Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis , a young southerner's masterful effort to unravel perhaps the most ...
... Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy - five thousand troops , which forced the upper South to choose sides in ... Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis , a young southerner's masterful effort to unravel perhaps the most ...
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... Lincoln thus took office facing what he himself described as " a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington . " Soon he had to make the most difficult decisions of his life . 1 Lincoln's decision - making process ...
... Lincoln thus took office facing what he himself described as " a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington . " Soon he had to make the most difficult decisions of his life . 1 Lincoln's decision - making process ...
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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