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 xv
... lower South or cotton states , which abruptly left the Union after Lincoln's election . From such a perspective , the decision to wage the war for southern independence appears inevitable and even rea- sonable . It cuts against the ...
... lower South or cotton states , which abruptly left the Union after Lincoln's election . From such a perspective , the decision to wage the war for southern independence appears inevitable and even rea- sonable . It cuts against the ...
Page xvi
... lower South similarly incomprehensible . Former Tennessee Governor William B. Campbell thought the cotton states had no legitimate complaints about the federal government . He tried to persuade an Alabama cousin that secession was ...
... lower South similarly incomprehensible . Former Tennessee Governor William B. Campbell thought the cotton states had no legitimate complaints about the federal government . He tried to persuade an Alabama cousin that secession was ...
Page xvii
... 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 dislodge any state from the Union ...
... 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 dislodge any state from the Union ...
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... lower South , stirred the third and greatest wave . It immediately engulfed upper South Unionism . The three states studied here seceded in a frenzy of patriotic enthusiasm . Only in northwestern Virginia and East Ten- nessee did an ...
... lower South , stirred the third and greatest wave . It immediately engulfed upper South Unionism . The three states studied here seceded in a frenzy of patriotic enthusiasm . Only in northwestern Virginia and East Ten- nessee did an ...
Page xx
... lower South in seceding . Those opposed be- came , perforce , " Unionists . " ( Secessionist preferred to call their op- ponents " submissionists . " ) Allegiances formed during January and February persisted , with few exceptions ...
... lower South in seceding . Those opposed be- came , perforce , " Unionists . " ( Secessionist preferred to call their op- ponents " submissionists . " ) Allegiances formed during January and February persisted , with few exceptions ...
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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