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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... Voters , 1856-1860 3-4 Tennessee : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 7-1 How Virginia Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners Divided Their Votes : Estimated Percentages for November 1860 and February 1861 46 55 56 57 58 59 82 86 8888 ...
... Voters , 1856-1860 3-4 Tennessee : Estimated Distribution of Voters , 1856-1860 7-1 How Virginia Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners Divided Their Votes : Estimated Percentages for November 1860 and February 1861 46 55 56 57 58 59 82 86 8888 ...
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... Voters 190 7-9 February 1861 Patterns of November 1860 Tennessee Voters 191 192 7-10 Breakdown of Union Voters 8-1 Proposed Secession Crisis Compromises in Historical Perspective 13-1 Tennessee : Secession Crisis Correlation ...
... Voters 190 7-9 February 1861 Patterns of November 1860 Tennessee Voters 191 192 7-10 Breakdown of Union Voters 8-1 Proposed Secession Crisis Compromises in Historical Perspective 13-1 Tennessee : Secession Crisis Correlation ...
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... Voters in all three states decisively rejected southern independence . To be sure , Unionists usually attached conditions to their allegiance , pledging to resist federal " coercion " of the seceding states . They neverthe- less ...
... Voters in all three states decisively rejected southern independence . To be sure , Unionists usually attached conditions to their allegiance , pledging to resist federal " coercion " of the seceding states . They neverthe- less ...
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... voters could forbid holding a state convention or approve any action decided upon by a convention , should one be held . Robert Caruthers , of the Tennessee Supreme Court , was appointed by the legislature to the state delegation at the ...
... voters could forbid holding a state convention or approve any action decided upon by a convention , should one be held . Robert Caruthers , of the Tennessee Supreme Court , was appointed by the legislature to the state delegation at the ...
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... 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 convention to meet . Whigs provided the ...
... 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 convention to meet . Whigs provided the ...
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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