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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... majority in all three states . Many Democrats , especially the officeholding elite , either supported seces- sion overtly or allowed disunionists to lead . For perhaps two months , secession strength grew , creating a wave that surged ...
... majority in all three states . Many Democrats , especially the officeholding elite , either supported seces- sion overtly or allowed disunionists to lead . For perhaps two months , secession strength grew , creating a wave that surged ...
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... majority of this Con- vention is more basely submissive than I had supposed possible , " he fumed.5 The ability of Unionists to prevent the upper South from seceding gave legitimacy to the efforts of conciliatory Republicans , headed by ...
... majority of this Con- vention is more basely submissive than I had supposed possible , " he fumed.5 The ability of Unionists to prevent the upper South from seceding gave legitimacy to the efforts of conciliatory Republicans , headed by ...
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... majority of upper South Unionists . He or- ganized the Seventh Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment ( CSA ) and was promoted to brigade command in May 1862 when the Army of the Potomac under George B. McClellan surrounded Richmond ...
... majority of upper South Unionists . He or- ganized the Seventh Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment ( CSA ) and was promoted to brigade command in May 1862 when the Army of the Potomac under George B. McClellan surrounded Richmond ...
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... majority " for Union nominees . Tennessee voters on February 9 delivered a stern verdict against secession . Union candi- dates drew over 75 percent of all votes cast . A smaller but still deci- sive majority opposed even allowing a ...
... majority " for Union nominees . Tennessee voters on February 9 delivered a stern verdict against secession . Union candi- dates drew over 75 percent of all votes cast . A smaller but still deci- sive majority opposed even allowing a ...
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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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