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 xv
... candidates a solemn promise that they would agree to no compromise whatever . Their instructions are to separate immediately , form a Southern confederacy as soon as possible , and if the border states don't come in , to legislate ...
... candidates a solemn promise that they would agree to no compromise whatever . Their instructions are to separate immediately , form a Southern confederacy as soon as possible , and if the border states don't come in , to legislate ...
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... candidates for the state convention . More than two out of three of those voting also specified that any convention action be made subject to popular referendum , a provision secessionists bit- terly opposed . Just before leaving ...
... candidates for the state convention . More than two out of three of those voting also specified that any convention action be made subject to popular referendum , a provision secessionists bit- terly opposed . Just before leaving ...
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... candidate John Bell , and Tennessee Senator Andrew John- son , the future president . Two highly visible newspaper editors and postwar Republican governors , Tennessee's William G. Brownlow and North Carolina's William W. Holden , built ...
... candidate John Bell , and Tennessee Senator Andrew John- son , the future president . Two highly visible newspaper editors and postwar Republican governors , Tennessee's William G. Brownlow and North Carolina's William W. Holden , built ...
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... candidate during the late 1840s and 1850s . 8 During his last years in the Senate , Crittenden stood almost alone . The disintegration of the Whig party left him with few political allies . Unwilling to support repeal of the Missouri ...
... candidate during the late 1840s and 1850s . 8 During his last years in the Senate , Crittenden stood almost alone . The disintegration of the Whig party left him with few political allies . Unwilling to support repeal of the Missouri ...
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... candidate such as Bell or Crittenden might attract mod- erates both North and South . When the septuagenarian Crittenden graciously stepped aside , former Whigs in the Constitutional Union party nominated Bell for president . Bell did ...
... candidate such as Bell or Crittenden might attract mod- erates both North and South . When the septuagenarian Crittenden graciously stepped aside , former Whigs in the Constitutional Union party nominated Bell for president . Bell did ...
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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