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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... Upper South Unionists considered the behavior of the lower South similarly incomprehensible . Former Tennessee Governor William B. Campbell thought the cotton states had no legitimate complaints about the federal government . He tried ...
... Upper South Unionists considered the behavior of the lower South similarly incomprehensible . Former Tennessee Governor William B. Campbell thought the cotton states had no legitimate complaints about the federal government . He tried ...
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Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. ginia , North Carolina , and Tennessee during the brief six - month in- terval between November 1860 and April 1861. Promoters of seces- sion tried to spur the upper South ...
Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. ginia , North Carolina , and Tennessee during the brief six - month in- terval between November 1860 and April 1861. Promoters of seces- sion tried to spur the upper South ...
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Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. February 4 , 1861 , the very day that representatives from the seven seceding states met in Montgomery , Alabama , to organize the Con- federate States of America , Ruffin's ...
Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. February 4 , 1861 , the very day that representatives from the seven seceding states met in Montgomery , Alabama , to organize the Con- federate States of America , Ruffin's ...
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Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. ceptive but not omniscient . Though anxious , they ... upper South in late 186o and early 1861 with an analysis of the Republican party's response to upper South Unionism ...
Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. ceptive but not omniscient . Though anxious , they ... upper South in late 186o and early 1861 with an analysis of the Republican party's response to upper South Unionism ...
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Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. In more tranquil times Hatton could have looked ... South rushed to establish a separate government , Tennessee and the states of the upper South faced a terrible dilemma ...
Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts. In more tranquil times Hatton could have looked ... South rushed to establish a separate government , Tennessee and the states of the upper South faced a terrible dilemma ...
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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