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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... Tennessee : Correlation Coefficients , Whig Voting , 1848-1861 3-1 Vote Totals and Percentages , 1860 Presidential Election 3-2 Virginia : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 3-3 North Carolina : Estimated Distribution of ...
... Tennessee : Correlation Coefficients , Whig Voting , 1848-1861 3-1 Vote Totals and Percentages , 1860 Presidential Election 3-2 Virginia : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 3-3 North Carolina : Estimated Distribution of ...
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... Tennessee Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners Divided Their Votes : Estimated Percentages for November 1860 , February 1861 , and June 1861 184 7-6 Tennessee : Estimated Percentages of Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners in Voting Blocs ...
... Tennessee Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners Divided Their Votes : Estimated Percentages for November 1860 , February 1861 , and June 1861 184 7-6 Tennessee : Estimated Percentages of Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners in Voting Blocs ...
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... Tennessee Voting Patterns , February and June 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 7-4 Virginia Voting Patterns , 1860-1861 : Low- and High- Slaveowning Counties Contrasted 167 168 7-5 North Carolina Voting Patterns , 1860 ...
... Tennessee Voting Patterns , February and June 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 7-4 Virginia Voting Patterns , 1860-1861 : Low- and High- Slaveowning Counties Contrasted 167 168 7-5 North Carolina Voting Patterns , 1860 ...
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... Tennessee Counties and Regions in 1860 42 2-6 Percentage of Slaves in Tennessee's Population , by County , 1860 Census 43 3-1 Democratic Percentage of Presidential Vote , by County , Virginia , November 1860 83 3-2 Democratic Percentage ...
... Tennessee Counties and Regions in 1860 42 2-6 Percentage of Slaves in Tennessee's Population , by County , 1860 Census 43 3-1 Democratic Percentage of Presidential Vote , by County , Virginia , November 1860 83 3-2 Democratic Percentage ...
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... Tennessee , and Arkansas align with the Confederacy . The focus of this book is on the three populous and pivotal states of Virginia , North Carolina , and Tennessee . These states contained almost half the white population of the area ...
... Tennessee , and Arkansas align with the Confederacy . The focus of this book is on the three populous and pivotal states of Virginia , North Carolina , and Tennessee . These states contained almost half the white population of the area ...
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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