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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... leader best positioned to exert lever- age at the federal level was the U.S. congressman , Robert Hatton . He had quickly emerged as a rising star among the southern Opposition , the bloc of twenty - three former Whigs who worked ...
... leader best positioned to exert lever- age at the federal level was the U.S. congressman , Robert Hatton . He had quickly emerged as a rising star among the southern Opposition , the bloc of twenty - three former Whigs who worked ...
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... leaders who identified too closely with the revolution in the deep South suddenly fell from public fa- vor . Their constituencies instead demanded intensified efforts to en- act compromise legislation and preserve the peace . Reluctant ...
... leaders who identified too closely with the revolution in the deep South suddenly fell from public fa- vor . Their constituencies instead demanded intensified efforts to en- act compromise legislation and preserve the peace . Reluctant ...
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... leader of the northern Democracy . Physically Lincoln and Douglas were a study in opposites . The Na- poleonic ... leadership . In an age of political oratory , many considered him the most formidable speaker in the U.S. Senate . His ...
... leader of the northern Democracy . Physically Lincoln and Douglas were a study in opposites . The Na- poleonic ... leadership . In an age of political oratory , many considered him the most formidable speaker in the U.S. Senate . His ...
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... leader of the era combined Seward's ability to maintain the confidence of those who saw politics as a matter of principle and those , such as his alter ego Thurlow Weed , who made political organization and management a professional ...
... leader of the era combined Seward's ability to maintain the confidence of those who saw politics as a matter of principle and those , such as his alter ego Thurlow Weed , who made political organization and management a professional ...
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... leader in the emerging Whig party . Like Crittenden , Bell briefly sat in William Henry Harrison's ill - fated cabinet in 1841. In 1847 he began the first of two terms in the U.S. Senate.9 Bell was respected but not loved . Once judged ...
... leader in the emerging Whig party . Like Crittenden , Bell briefly sat in William Henry Harrison's ill - fated cabinet in 1841. In 1847 he began the first of two terms in the U.S. Senate.9 Bell was respected but not loved . Once judged ...
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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