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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... Richmond . " The majority of this Con- vention is more basely submissive than I had supposed possible , " he fumed.5 The ability of Unionists to prevent the upper South from seceding gave legitimacy to the efforts of conciliatory ...
... Richmond . " The majority of this Con- vention is more basely submissive than I had supposed possible , " he fumed.5 The ability of Unionists to prevent the upper South from seceding gave legitimacy to the efforts of conciliatory ...
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... Richmond . One week later , at Seven Pines , Hatton was killed instantly while leading his troops across an open field against well - positioned federal forces . Hatton's home , the " pretty country town " of Lebanon , stands at the ...
... Richmond . One week later , at Seven Pines , Hatton was killed instantly while leading his troops across an open field against well - positioned federal forces . Hatton's home , the " pretty country town " of Lebanon , stands at the ...
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... Now is the time for action ; the time for speaking has passed . " '3 Act he did . Within barely a year , as a Confederate brigadier general , he lay dead on the battlefield outside Richmond . His death , 6 | Reluctant Confederates.
... Now is the time for action ; the time for speaking has passed . " '3 Act he did . Within barely a year , as a Confederate brigadier general , he lay dead on the battlefield outside Richmond . His death , 6 | Reluctant Confederates.
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... Richmond . His death , at the age of thirty - five , marked the ironic end to a tragically shortened life . The commemorative statue later erected in Lebanon , in the same town square where the pro - Confederate students tried to burn ...
... Richmond . His death , at the age of thirty - five , marked the ironic end to a tragically shortened life . The commemorative statue later erected in Lebanon , in the same town square where the pro - Confederate students tried to burn ...
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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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