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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... included these three states , its claim to independence would have been far less impressive , as would its ability to make good on that claim . Our understanding of secession draws primarily on the experience of the lower South or ...
... included these three states , its claim to independence would have been far less impressive , as would its ability to make good on that claim . Our understanding of secession draws primarily on the experience of the lower South or ...
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... included eight states , but in this study the term will typically be used to designate Virginia , North Carolina , and Ten- nessee . Why have I not given equal coverage to all eight states ? As already suggested , my concern has been to ...
... included eight states , but in this study the term will typically be used to designate Virginia , North Carolina , and Ten- nessee . Why have I not given equal coverage to all eight states ? As already suggested , my concern has been to ...
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... included sufficient nonslaveowning yeoman migrants from Tennessee and other parts of the upper South to give upcountry antisecessionists a narrow advantage — until the calamitous events of mid - April . At a few points I have made use ...
... included sufficient nonslaveowning yeoman migrants from Tennessee and other parts of the upper South to give upcountry antisecessionists a narrow advantage — until the calamitous events of mid - April . At a few points I have made use ...
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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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