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 vii
... Late Antebellum Upper South 37 3. The Political Origins of Upper South Unionism 66 4. Unionists on the Defensive 5. The Unionist Argument 6. The Unionist Offensive 90 104 130 7. Measuring the Unionist Insurgency 164 8. The Unionists and ...
... Late Antebellum Upper South 37 3. The Political Origins of Upper South Unionism 66 4. Unionists on the Defensive 5. The Unionist Argument 6. The Unionist Offensive 90 104 130 7. Measuring the Unionist Insurgency 164 8. The Unionists and ...
Page xvi
... late 186o , creating popular attitudes such as those described by William M. Clark . Closer two - party competition in the upper South , however , gave Whiggish opponents of secession a sub- stantial nucleus from which to build ...
... late 186o , creating popular attitudes such as those described by William M. Clark . Closer two - party competition in the upper South , however , gave Whiggish opponents of secession a sub- stantial nucleus from which to build ...
Page xvii
... late December and 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 ...
... late December and 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 ...
Page xix
... late 186o and 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 ...
... late 186o and 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 ...
Page xxi
... late antebellum upper South , and by examining the response of sectional moderates there to the deepening crisis of the late 185os and 186o . Starting with Chapter 4 , which capsules the growth of secession sentiment in the upper South ...
... late antebellum upper South , and by examining the response of sectional moderates there to the deepening crisis of the late 185os and 186o . Starting with Chapter 4 , which capsules the growth of secession sentiment in the upper South ...
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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