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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Page xvii
... Opposition " by the late 1850s , after the collapse of their national party . The survival of competitive Op- position parties in the upper South , in contrast to the experience of the lower South during the 1850s , provided ...
... Opposition " by the late 1850s , after the collapse of their national party . The survival of competitive Op- position parties in the upper South , in contrast to the experience of the lower South during the 1850s , provided ...
Page xxi
... opposition to secession triggered the greatest realignment of political loyalties in a generation , creating new " Union parties " across the upper South . ( The Appendixes pro- vide an explanation of statistical techniques used in ...
... opposition to secession triggered the greatest realignment of political loyalties in a generation , creating new " Union parties " across the upper South . ( The Appendixes pro- vide an explanation of statistical techniques used in ...
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... Opposition party rebounded in 1859 to carry seven of the state's ten congressional seats , the thirty - two - year - old Hatton stood as one of the most promising young politicians from the upper South . His first speech to the House in ...
... Opposition party rebounded in 1859 to carry seven of the state's ten congressional seats , the thirty - two - year - old Hatton stood as one of the most promising young politicians from the upper South . His first speech to the House in ...
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... Opposition or for- mer Whig congressmen from the upper South , notably Tennessee's Robert Hatton and Emerson Etheridge and North Carolina's John A. Gilmer , found themselves in unaccustomed prominence during the secession crisis . ANY ...
... Opposition or for- mer Whig congressmen from the upper South , notably Tennessee's Robert Hatton and Emerson Etheridge and North Carolina's John A. Gilmer , found themselves in unaccustomed prominence during the secession crisis . ANY ...
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... opposition to secession . Many leaders of Johnson's generation had humble origins , but his were notably unpromising . Hired out as an apprentice by his penni- less mother after his father had died , the unlettered Johnson ran away and ...
... opposition to secession . Many leaders of Johnson's generation had humble origins , but his were notably unpromising . Hired out as an apprentice by his penni- less mother after his father had died , the unlettered Johnson ran away and ...
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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