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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... Pro - Union Percentage of Votes Cast in Virginia , February 1861 172 7-8 Pro - Union and Anticonvention Percentages of Votes Cast in North Carolina , February 1861 173 7-9 Pro - Union and Anticonvention Percentages of Votes Cast in ...
... Pro - Union Percentage of Votes Cast in Virginia , February 1861 172 7-8 Pro - Union and Anticonvention Percentages of Votes Cast in North Carolina , February 1861 173 7-9 Pro - Union and Anticonvention Percentages of Votes Cast in ...
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... Union sources from several nonseced- ing states , primarily Maryland and Kentucky . Maryland Congress- man Henry Winter Davis and Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden played key roles in formulating Unionist strategy . Their public pro ...
... Union sources from several nonseced- ing states , primarily Maryland and Kentucky . Maryland Congress- man Henry Winter Davis and Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden played key roles in formulating Unionist strategy . Their public pro ...
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... Union parties " across the upper South . ( The Appendixes pro- vide an explanation of statistical techniques used in Chapter 7 and an assessment of how other historians have applied such techniques to study secession . ) Chapter 8 ...
... Union parties " across the upper South . ( The Appendixes pro- vide an explanation of statistical techniques used in Chapter 7 and an assessment of how other historians have applied such techniques to study secession . ) Chapter 8 ...
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... pro - Confederate students tried to burn his effigy , honors a genuine Confederate hero . That same person , however ... Union Prologue 7.
... pro - Confederate students tried to burn his effigy , honors a genuine Confederate hero . That same person , however ... Union Prologue 7.
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... Union cavalry regiment , and both he and May- nard eventually joined the ... Union cause . Nelson , captured by a Confederate patrol in late 1861 , won his ... Pro- logue , Robert Hatton , renounced their Unionism as soon as the war ...
... Union cavalry regiment , and both he and May- nard eventually joined the ... Union cause . Nelson , captured by a Confederate patrol in late 1861 , won his ... Pro- logue , Robert Hatton , renounced their Unionism as soon as the war ...
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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