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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... considered the behavior of the lower South similarly incomprehensible . Former Tennessee Governor William B. Campbell thought the cotton states had no legitimate complaints about the federal government . He tried to persuade an Alabama ...
... considered the behavior of the lower South similarly incomprehensible . Former Tennessee Governor William B. Campbell thought the cotton states had no legitimate complaints about the federal government . He tried to persuade an Alabama ...
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... considered together . But an occasional comment in early winter by Georgia's Alexander H. Stephens , for example , helped me to explain a viewpoint that he then shared with upper South Unionists . It is appropriate here to preview ...
... considered together . But an occasional comment in early winter by Georgia's Alexander H. Stephens , for example , helped me to explain a viewpoint that he then shared with upper South Unionists . It is appropriate here to preview ...
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... and to explain what they considered inexplicable — Lincoln's refusal to fol- low their plan for peaceful restoration of the Union . This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS DURING this book's incubation Preface | xxiii.
... and to explain what they considered inexplicable — Lincoln's refusal to fol- low their plan for peaceful restoration of the Union . This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS DURING this book's incubation Preface | xxiii.
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... his greatest political distinction by trying to thwart what he considered the reckless and suicidal movement to create the south- ern Confederacy . 1 UNIONIST PROFILES MOST literate Americans know that the Union Prologue 7.
... his greatest political distinction by trying to thwart what he considered the reckless and suicidal movement to create the south- ern Confederacy . 1 UNIONIST PROFILES MOST literate Americans know that the Union Prologue 7.
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... considered him the most formidable speaker in the U.S. Senate . His skills in the cloakrooms and behind the scenes were likewise of a high order.4 The long rivalry between Lincoln and Douglas , sharpened by the famous 1858 debates in ...
... considered him the most formidable speaker in the U.S. Senate . His skills in the cloakrooms and behind the scenes were likewise of a high order.4 The long rivalry between Lincoln and Douglas , sharpened by the famous 1858 debates in ...
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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