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. |
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... Chapters 6 and 7 , this study concludes that one must take into ac- count both slaveholding and previous patterns of party allegiance to understand why the upper and lower South took such different stances during the months after ...
... Chapters 6 and 7 , this study concludes that one must take into ac- count both slaveholding and previous patterns of party allegiance to understand why the upper and lower South took such different stances during the months after ...
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... Chapter 5 will differentiate between several varieties of Union- ists , but the general label is nevertheless useful and appropriate . The great question confronting the upper South in early 1861 was whether to follow the lower South in ...
... Chapter 5 will differentiate between several varieties of Union- ists , but the general label is nevertheless useful and appropriate . The great question confronting the upper South in early 1861 was whether to follow the lower South in ...
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... Chapter 5 of Unionist thought , Chapter 6 recounts the principal Unionist achievement — blocking secession in the upper South in early 1861 . Chapter 7 shows that popular opposition to secession triggered the greatest realignment of ...
... Chapter 5 of Unionist thought , Chapter 6 recounts the principal Unionist achievement — blocking secession in the upper South in early 1861 . Chapter 7 shows that popular opposition to secession triggered the greatest realignment of ...
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... Chapters 12 and 13 dissect the extraordinary final phase of the crisis . Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy - five thousand troops , which forced the upper South to choose sides in a war , un- dermined the Unionist coalition and ...
... Chapters 12 and 13 dissect the extraordinary final phase of the crisis . Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy - five thousand troops , which forced the upper South to choose sides in a war , un- dermined the Unionist coalition and ...
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Contents
Unionist Profiles | 8 |
Political Parties in the Late Antebellum Upper South | 37 |
The Political Origins of Upper South Unionism | 66 |
Unionists on the Defensive | 90 |
The Unionist Offensive | 104 |
The Unionist Offensive | 130 |
Measuring the Unionist Insurgency | 164 |
The Unionists and Compromise | 195 |
The Unionists Fort Sumter and the Proclamation for Seventyfive Thousand Troops | 308 |
Forced to Choose Sides Southern Unionists after the Proclamation | 334 |
Rethinking the Secession Crisis | 353 |
Multiple Regression Party Slavery and Secession | 361 |
Ecological Regression Estimating Voter Behavior | 367 |
Statistics Secession and the Historians | 376 |
Notes | 383 |
Bibliographical Essay | 457 |
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Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts Limited preview - 2014 |
Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts No preview available - 1993 |
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