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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... became the Confed- eracy and an even larger share of the resources the South needed to fight a war . Their production of food and livestock , and especially their industrial output , dwarfed that of the original seceding states . Had ...
... became the Confed- eracy and an even larger share of the resources the South needed to fight a war . Their production of food and livestock , and especially their industrial output , dwarfed that of the original seceding states . Had ...
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... became a Confederate officer , he had just finished his first term in the U.S. 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 ...
... became a Confederate officer , he had just finished his first term in the U.S. 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 ...
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... became prominent during the 1850s . Jordan Stokes , Speaker of the Tennessee 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 ...
... became prominent during the 1850s . Jordan Stokes , Speaker of the Tennessee 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 ...
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... became very depressed after reaching Washington in December . He found that the states of the deep South were certain to leave the Union but that Republicans were “ blind ” to the danger and indisposed to take any action to avert it ...
... became very depressed after reaching Washington in December . He found that the states of the deep South were certain to leave the Union but that Republicans were “ blind ” to the danger and indisposed to take any action to avert it ...
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... became the most widely discussed attempt to save the Union during the winter of 1860–61 . A slender man of slightly more than average height with a lock of hair that tended to fall over his high , broad forehead , Crittenden won early ...
... became the most widely discussed attempt to save the Union during the winter of 1860–61 . A slender man of slightly more than average height with a lock of hair that tended to fall over his high , broad forehead , Crittenden won early ...
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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