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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... 150 6-3 Percentage for Secession , by County , Tennessee , February 1861 151 13-1 Percentage for Separation , by County , Tennessee , June 1861 343 ILLUSTRATIONS Statue of Robert Hatton Robert Hatton Abraham Lincoln Stephen.
... 150 6-3 Percentage for Secession , by County , Tennessee , February 1861 151 13-1 Percentage for Separation , by County , Tennessee , June 1861 343 ILLUSTRATIONS Statue of Robert Hatton Robert Hatton Abraham Lincoln Stephen.
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Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. ILLUSTRATIONS Statue of Robert Hatton Robert Hatton Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas XXX 3 11 12 William H. Seward 14 Charles Francis Adams 15 John J. Crittenden 16 John ...
Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. ILLUSTRATIONS Statue of Robert Hatton Robert Hatton Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas XXX 3 11 12 William H. Seward 14 Charles Francis Adams 15 John J. Crittenden 16 John ...
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... A. Gilmer , and Robert Hatton , I inevitably began to look at the sectional crisis through their eyes . That conferred certain advantages because they saw things that too many other Americans had not seen , but it also xxii Preface.
... A. Gilmer , and Robert Hatton , I inevitably began to look at the sectional crisis through their eyes . That conferred certain advantages because they saw things that too many other Americans had not seen , but it also xxii Preface.
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... Nashville on Interstate 40 through Tennessee's. Statue of Robert Hatton , which stands in the town square of Lebanon , Tennessee ( photograph by Bill Cook of the Lebanon Democrat ) Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ( ambrotype by Preston Butler ,
... Nashville on Interstate 40 through Tennessee's. Statue of Robert Hatton , which stands in the town square of Lebanon , Tennessee ( photograph by Bill Cook of the Lebanon Democrat ) Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ( ambrotype by Preston Butler ,
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... Robert Hatton . That task has already attracted several able writers , whose work has been of much value in the preparation of this study . 1 Rather , Robert Hatton so well symbolizes the major themes of this book that a brief review of ...
... Robert Hatton . That task has already attracted several able writers , whose work has been of much value in the preparation of this study . 1 Rather , Robert Hatton so well symbolizes the major themes of this book that a brief review of ...
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 No preview available - 1993 |
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