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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... movement in Tennessee and trying to devise a compromise basis for reunion . State senator Jordan Stokes , a militant antisecessionist , led the legislative fight to ensure that Ten- nessee voters could forbid holding a state convention ...
... movement in Tennessee and trying to devise a compromise basis for reunion . State senator Jordan Stokes , a militant antisecessionist , led the legislative fight to ensure that Ten- nessee voters could forbid holding a state convention ...
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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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... movement . Lincoln thus took office facing what he himself described as " a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington . " Soon he had to make the most difficult decisions of his life . 1 Lincoln's decision - making ...
... movement . Lincoln thus took office facing what he himself described as " a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington . " Soon he had to make the most difficult decisions of his life . 1 Lincoln's decision - making ...
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... movement and confined it to the seven states of the deep South had he decided differently , but his defenders counter that nobody had the personal influence to stem the secession tide in Middle and West Tennessee . Had Bell tried to do ...
... movement and confined it to the seven states of the deep South had he decided differently , but his defenders counter that nobody had the personal influence to stem the secession tide in Middle and West Tennessee . Had Bell tried to do ...
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... his Unionism would falter after the war began , Holden led the wartime " peace movement ” that many North Carolina Confederates considered treasonous . He , like Brown- low , became a postwar governor of his state under Unionist Profiles ...
... his Unionism would falter after the war began , Holden led the wartime " peace movement ” that many North Carolina Confederates considered treasonous . He , like Brown- low , became a postwar governor of his state under Unionist Profiles ...
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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