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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... friend in January 1861 : " Our people are calmly and fully determined never to submit to Lincoln's admin- istration , or to any Compromise with the Northern States , " William M. Clark observed . " The people themselves in their primary ...
... friend in January 1861 : " Our people are calmly and fully determined never to submit to Lincoln's admin- istration , or to any Compromise with the Northern States , " William M. Clark observed . " The people themselves in their primary ...
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... friends have established by example a de- manding standard . The statistical portions of my analysis could not have been devel- oped without the assistance of Janet Vavra of the Inter - University Consortium of Political and Social ...
... friends have established by example a de- manding standard . The statistical portions of my analysis could not have been devel- oped without the assistance of Janet Vavra of the Inter - University Consortium of Political and Social ...
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... friends sided with the Union , Hatton nevertheless became a Con- federate , as did a large majority of upper South Unionists . He or- ganized the Seventh Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment ( CSA ) and was promoted to brigade command ...
... friends sided with the Union , Hatton nevertheless became a Con- federate , as did a large majority of upper South Unionists . He or- ganized the Seventh Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment ( CSA ) and was promoted to brigade command ...
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... friends " had predicted that his con- gressional district would favor a convention and warned that a run- away convention might drive through a secession ordinance without referring it to the people . Suddenly that threat lifted ...
... friends " had predicted that his con- gressional district would favor a convention and warned that a run- away convention might drive through a secession ordinance without referring it to the people . Suddenly that threat lifted ...
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... friends in Lebanon . According to the Lebanon Herald , the mob action was " universally pronounced here by men of all parties as disgraceful . ” 11 Most people in Wilson County remained loyal Unionists until re- ceiving word about ...
... friends in Lebanon . According to the Lebanon Herald , the mob action was " universally pronounced here by men of all parties as disgraceful . ” 11 Most people in Wilson County remained loyal Unionists until re- ceiving word about ...
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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