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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... , to legislate against their slave interest so as to force them in , or place them as it were between two fires . Never have I seen people more calmly determined . The old and young , rich and poor seem willing to die Preface.
... , to legislate against their slave interest so as to force them in , or place them as it were between two fires . Never have I seen people more calmly determined . The old and young , rich and poor seem willing to die Preface.
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... forces . Hatton's home , the " pretty country town " of Lebanon , stands at the center of Wilson County . Situated primarily within the fertile Cumberland River basin that attracted the first surge of white set- tlers to Tennessee ...
... forces . Hatton's home , the " pretty country town " of Lebanon , stands at the center of Wilson County . Situated primarily within the fertile Cumberland River basin that attracted the first surge of white set- tlers to Tennessee ...
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... force and deter- mination . " Hatton , slender and " rather tall , " made a striking appear- ance . He had " a large head and a long face , made longer by a profu- sion of orange chin beard , " a high forehead , blue eyes set wide apart ...
... force and deter- mination . " Hatton , slender and " rather tall , " made a striking appear- ance . He had " a large head and a long face , made longer by a profu- sion of orange chin beard , " a high forehead , blue eyes set wide apart ...
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... force . Called upon to speak af- ter the proclamation arrived , he is alleged to have replied : " Now is the time for action ; the time for speaking has passed . " '3 Act he did . Within barely a year , as a Confederate brigadier ...
... force . Called upon to speak af- ter the proclamation arrived , he is alleged to have replied : " Now is the time for action ; the time for speaking has passed . " '3 Act he did . Within barely a year , as a Confederate brigadier ...
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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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