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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... Election 3-2 Virginia : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 3-3 North Carolina : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 3-4 Tennessee : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 7-1 How Virginia Slaveowners and ...
... Election 3-2 Virginia : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 3-3 North Carolina : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 3-4 Tennessee : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 7-1 How Virginia Slaveowners and ...
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... 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 left the ...
... 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 left the ...
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... election . They had a program to confront northern menace and insult . And , not least among their assets , they had leverage in the Democratic party , which maintained a modest majority in all three states . Many Democrats , especially ...
... election . They had a program to confront northern menace and insult . And , not least among their assets , they had leverage in the Democratic party , which maintained a modest majority in all three states . Many Democrats , especially ...
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... election was the subject of universal observation and remark , ” he noted . " The swords of the wicked and reckless revolutionists " had been " turned upon their own breasts . " 9 Hatton returned home from Washington in early March ...
... election was the subject of universal observation and remark , ” he noted . " The swords of the wicked and reckless revolutionists " had been " turned upon their own breasts . " 9 Hatton returned home from Washington in early March ...
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... election on November 6 , 1860 , he faced a grave challenge . Growing numbers of southerners preferred to disrupt the Union rather than “ submit " to his victory . Lincoln tried to explain that he intended to treat them fairly , to leave ...
... election on November 6 , 1860 , he faced a grave challenge . Growing numbers of southerners preferred to disrupt the Union rather than “ submit " to his victory . Lincoln tried to explain that he intended to treat them fairly , to leave ...
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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