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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... Voting Patterns in High- and Low - Slaveowning Counties in 1860 2-2 Virginia : Correlation Coefficients , Whig ... Vote Totals and Percentages , 1860 Presidential Election 3-2 Virginia : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 ...
... Voting Patterns in High- and Low - Slaveowning Counties in 1860 2-2 Virginia : Correlation Coefficients , Whig ... Vote Totals and Percentages , 1860 Presidential Election 3-2 Virginia : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 ...
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... Voting Blocs , November 1860 , February 1861 , and June 1861 186 7-7 February 1861 Patterns of November 1860 ... Voting Behavior of Virginia Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners , 1860-1861 368 A - 6 Estimated Voting Behavior of North Carolina ...
... Voting Blocs , November 1860 , February 1861 , and June 1861 186 7-7 February 1861 Patterns of November 1860 ... Voting Behavior of Virginia Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners , 1860-1861 368 A - 6 Estimated Voting Behavior of North Carolina ...
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... Voting Patterns , February 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 166 7-3 Tennessee Voting Patterns , February and June 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 7-4 Virginia Voting Patterns , 1860-1861 : Low- and High ...
... Voting Patterns , February 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 166 7-3 Tennessee Voting Patterns , February and June 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 7-4 Virginia Voting Patterns , 1860-1861 : Low- and High ...
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... Vote , by County , Virginia , November 1860 83 3-2 Democratic Percentage of Presidential Vote , by County , North Carolina , November 1860 84 3-3 Democratic Percentage of Presidential Vote , by County , Tennessee , November 1860 85 6-1 ...
... Vote , by County , Virginia , November 1860 83 3-2 Democratic Percentage of Presidential Vote , by County , North Carolina , November 1860 84 3-3 Democratic Percentage of Presidential Vote , by County , Tennessee , November 1860 85 6-1 ...
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... voted against secession . Many other Democrats , uneasy about seces- sion and about alliance with Whiggish Unionists , did not vote at all , thereby further depressing prosecession vote totals . The action of the upper South stunned ...
... voted against secession . Many other Democrats , uneasy about seces- sion and about alliance with Whiggish Unionists , did not vote at all , thereby further depressing prosecession vote totals . The action of the upper South stunned ...
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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