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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... eligibility to vote and a dearth of local and state offices subject to popular election before adoption of the 1851 constitution.3 The pattern of partisan allegiances that developed bore no uni- form relationship to slaveholding or to ...
... eligibility to vote and a dearth of local and state offices subject to popular election before adoption of the 1851 constitution.3 The pattern of partisan allegiances that developed bore no uni- form relationship to slaveholding or to ...
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... eligible voters participated in western Virginia than in eastern Vir- ginia , but those who did vote showed slightly greater Democratic proclivities than in the east . Tennessee's three regions , in order of increasing Democratic ...
... eligible voters participated in western Virginia than in eastern Vir- ginia , but those who did vote showed slightly greater Democratic proclivities than in the east . Tennessee's three regions , in order of increasing Democratic ...
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... eligible electorate , both voters and nonvoters . See Chapter 7 , n . 2 , on sources of data . than in the west helped to give the state a Democratic majority . Cen- tral and western North Carolina had pockets of Democratic strength ...
... eligible electorate , both voters and nonvoters . See Chapter 7 , n . 2 , on sources of data . than in the west helped to give the state a Democratic majority . Cen- tral and western North Carolina had pockets of Democratic strength ...
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... eligible turnout reached peaks during the second party system never seen before or since . In Tennessee , with no prop- erty restrictions on voter eligibility after 1834 and a fiercely competi- tive political environment , the turnout ...
... eligible turnout reached peaks during the second party system never seen before or since . In Tennessee , with no prop- erty restrictions on voter eligibility after 1834 and a fiercely competi- tive political environment , the turnout ...
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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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