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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Page xvii
... early January . In parts of " lower Vir- ginia " and the Democratic plantation counties of North Carolina , the initial secessionist wave looked irresistible . But in the upper South — unlike the lower South — the first wave did not ...
... early January . In parts of " lower Vir- ginia " and the Democratic plantation counties of North Carolina , the initial secessionist wave looked irresistible . But in the upper South — unlike the lower South — the first wave did not ...
Page xviii
... early April , upper South Unionists be- lieved Lincoln had agreed to the conciliatory plan . Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy - five thousand troops on April 15 , in effect asking the upper South to fight the lower South ...
... early April , upper South Unionists be- lieved Lincoln had agreed to the conciliatory plan . Lincoln's proclamation calling for seventy - five thousand troops on April 15 , in effect asking the upper South to fight the lower South ...
Page xix
... early 1861 with an analysis of the Republican party's response to upper South Unionism . Such an approach reveals major aspects of the secession crisis that have here- tofore been neglected or misinterpreted . Indeed , secession created ...
... early 1861 with an analysis of the Republican party's response to upper South Unionism . Such an approach reveals major aspects of the secession crisis that have here- tofore been neglected or misinterpreted . Indeed , secession created ...
Page xx
... early 1861 was whether to follow the lower South in seceding . Those opposed be- came , perforce , " Unionists . " ( Secessionist preferred to call their op- ponents " submissionists . " ) Allegiances formed during January and February ...
... early 1861 was whether to follow the lower South in seceding . Those opposed be- came , perforce , " Unionists . " ( Secessionist preferred to call their op- ponents " submissionists . " ) Allegiances formed during January and February ...
Page xxi
... early winter by Georgia's Alexander H. Stephens , for example , helped me to explain a viewpoint that he then shared with upper South Unionists . It is appropriate here to preview briefly the structure of the book . The Prologue and the ...
... early winter by Georgia's Alexander H. Stephens , for example , helped me to explain a viewpoint that he then shared with upper South Unionists . It is appropriate here to preview briefly the structure of the book . The Prologue and the ...
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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