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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... newspapers such as the Louisville Journal and the Baltimore American , will be cited freely when- ever they can strengthen the narrative . If the entire upper South lay beyond the scope of this study , it may yet be asked why I have not ...
... newspapers such as the Louisville Journal and the Baltimore American , will be cited freely when- ever they can strengthen the narrative . If the entire upper South lay beyond the scope of this study , it may yet be asked why I have not ...
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... newspaper in the next county reported it “ the universal desire of the Unionists " that Hatton “ again represent them in Congress . ” 1o Hatton's ideas suited his Unionist constituents , but college students from the deep South ...
... newspaper in the next county reported it “ the universal desire of the Unionists " that Hatton “ again represent them in Congress . ” 1o Hatton's ideas suited his Unionist constituents , but college students from the deep South ...
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... newspaper editors and postwar Republican governors , Tennessee's William G. Brownlow and North Carolina's William W. Holden , built mass support for the Union cause during the secession crisis . Several other southern Unionists appeared ...
... newspaper editors and postwar Republican governors , Tennessee's William G. Brownlow and North Carolina's William W. Holden , built mass support for the Union cause during the secession crisis . Several other southern Unionists appeared ...
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... newspaper articles , together with an essay entitled " The Great Secession Winter , " are essential sources.7 THE elder statesman among southern Unionists was John J. Critten- den of Kentucky . Born in 1786 , fully a generation before ...
... newspaper articles , together with an essay entitled " The Great Secession Winter , " are essential sources.7 THE elder statesman among southern Unionists was John J. Critten- den of Kentucky . Born in 1786 , fully a generation before ...
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... newspaper . 16 Brownlow like Johnson had struggled against the odds . An orphan and carpenter's apprentice , he spent ten years as a Methodist circuit rider before venturing into the newspaper business . The six - foot - tall Brownlow ...
... newspaper . 16 Brownlow like Johnson had struggled against the odds . An orphan and carpenter's apprentice , he spent ten years as a Methodist circuit rider before venturing into the newspaper business . The six - foot - tall Brownlow ...
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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